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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Adaptation | structure or behavior that helps an organism survive its surroundings |
| Community | different groups if organisms depending no one another to live |
| camouflage | color or body shape of an organism that makes the organism hard to see in its surroundings |
| carnivore | animal that eats other animals |
| consumer | organism that gets energy by eating other organisms |
| decomposer | organism that breaks down waste and/or dead organisms |
| ecosystem | all living and non-living things that interact with each other in an enviorment |
| food chain | path of food energy from one organism to another in an ecosystem |
| food web | overlapping food chains with different pathways that food energy flows in an ecosystem |
| growth | increase in size of an organism over a period of time |
| habitat | environment where the same kinds of plants and animals live |
| herbivore | animal that eats only plants and/or plant products |
| hibernate | to sleep through the winter to conserve energy |
| inherited trait | characteristic that is passed from parent to offspring |
| learned behavior | behavior that an animal develops by observing other animals/ or being taught |
| metamorphosis | changes in structure that an animal goes through in its life cycle |
| migration | seasonal movement of animals from one place to another |
| mimicry | one organism looking like another kind of organism in its environment so it can escape predators/ or catch prey |
| niche | "job" or role of an organism in a living community or ecosystem |
| offspring | new organisms that come from parent organisms |
| omnivore | an animal that eats both plant and animals |
| population | all the organisms of the same species that live in the same place at the same time |
| predator | animal that hunts,catches,and eats another animal |
| prey | animal that is hunted,caught,and eaten by another animal |
| producer | organism that makes its own food |
| reproduce | to make more organisms of the same kind |
| survival | ability to live or exist |
| trait | characteristic of an object or an organism |
| species | group of organisms that can mate and produce offspring like themselves |
| vertebrates | animals with a backbone |
| invertebrates | animals that do not have backbones |
| mammals | animals who are warm blooded,give birth to live babies,and breathe with lungs,and have hair or fur |
| amphibians | animals that have smooth moist skin,lay jellylike eggs with no shells,young live in water,and adults live on land |
| fish | animals who live in water,have scales,breathe oxygen in water with gills,to lay eggs without shells,or give birth to live young |
| birds | animals who live on land,some spend time in water,have feathers,breathe with lungs,most can fly,lay eggs with hard shells |
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