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chapter 1 vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| adaption | an adjustment to environment conditions |
| species | a group of organisms that can reproduce with each other. |
| environment | an organism's natural and man-made surroundings |
| ecology | study of interactions among living things and the non-living things in their environment |
| stimulus | anything to which an organism reacts |
| evolution | the change in population over time |
| extinct | when no member of a species are alive |
| ecosystem | all of the living things and non-living things in any particular area |
| speciation | the process of making a new species |
| ecologist | a person who studies ecology |
| variable | the factor that is tested in an experiment |
| experimental group | the same group as the control group except for one factor or variable to be tested |
| control group | the setup in an experiment that has no factor or variable changed |
| hypothesis | an educated guess |
| theory | an explanation that makes sense of a great variety of scientific observations |
| analysis | results from an experiment |
| data | collected from experiements |