Stayin' Alive Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
inherited trait | a characteristic that is passed from parents to their offspring |
learned behavior | a behavior that an animal develops by observing other animals or by experience |
environmental changes | changes in the environment like natural disasters |
flood | overflow of water on dry land |
drought | a long period of little or no rainfall |
populations | all the organisms of one type in a habitat |
community | a group of plants and animals living and interacting with each other in a habitat |
ecosystem | living and nonliving things that interact to provide the basic needs of the organisms that live there |
structure | a part |
function | a job or purpose |
thrive | grow strongly |
perish | die |
life cycle | series of stages a living organism goes through as it grows, develops, and matures |
food chain | the path of energy from one organism to another in an ecosystem; arrows show the flow of energy |
environments | everything in a habitat –both living and nonliving, including food, air, water, and shelter |
physical characteristics | features of a person, animal, organism, thing, (skin, fur, scales, claws, feathers etc.) |
adaptation | the ability of a species to survive in a particular ecosystem |
metamorphosis | change the form of a thing or person into a completely different one |
egg | oval or round object, laid by a female, containing a developing embryo. |
larva | hatches out of an egg, often worm-like |
pupa | occurs as the larva changes completely inside a cocoon |
adult | fully developed and mature |
organisms | a living thing |
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