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Adaptations Vocabulary

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Short-term Environmental Change   Occurs as a result of a catastrophic event or other environmental change  
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Natural Selection   The process where organisms with the best suited traits survive and reproduce and pass their successful traits to their offspring  
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Adaptation   a physical structure, behavior, or skill that provides an organism a better chance at surviving and reproducing  
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Selective Breeding   process of breeding plants and animals for particular genetic traits  
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Long Term Environmental Change   Occurs as a result of a change that happens over centuries or millions of years  
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Behavioral Adaptations   behaviors which allow organism to survive and reproduce  
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Sexual reproduction   requires two parents genetic material to reproduce  
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Asexual reproduction   requires one parent and can reproduce a lot of offspring in a short amount of time  
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Structural Adaptation   physical features of an organism that allow them to survive in an area successfully  
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Mimicry   Imitating other objects around it  
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Courtship   the period during which a couple develop a romantic relationship  
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