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Vocab reivew #3
Science review assignment number 3 vocab.
Term | Definition |
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Stimulus/stimuli | Changes in the environment. |
Response | The ways in which living things react to changes. |
Adaptations | Characteristics that help living things survive in their habitat. |
Behavioral Adaption | Special behaviors that help organisms adapt to changes. |
Migration | Moving form one environment to another. |
Hibernation | A survival strategy that is designed to conserve energy when conditions are harsh. |
Dormancy | Being completely inactive. |
Physical Adaption | A characteristic that living things develop that enables them to survive under a given set of conditions. |
Habitat | A particular habitat. |
Blubber | A protective layer of fat. |
Extinct/Extinction | When a species dies out. |
Fossil | The remains or traces of organisms that have lived in the past. |
Population | All the members of a particular species. |
Community | The different species with in a habitat. |
Ecosystem | Nonliving factors together with the living members of the community. |