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2nd 9wks
| 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 |