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NYSExam Vocab List 2
Stimulus/Response
Question | Answer |
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Stimulus/Stimuli | changes in the environment |
Response | a reaction to a change in the environment |
Adaptations | characteristics that help an organism survive |
Behavioral Adaptation | using a behavior to survive |
Migration | moving from one environment to another |
Hibernation | surviving the cold by sleeping all winter |
Dormancy | a state of being completely inactive |
Physical Adaptation | physical characteristics that help an organism survive |
Habitat | the environment in which an organism lives |
Blubber | a layer of protective fat |
Extinct/Extinction | no longer in existence |
Fossil | the remains of traces of an ancient organism |
Population | all the members of a particular species |
Community | all the different populations in a habitat |
Ecosystem | nonliving factors of an environment plus the living members of the community |