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Science
Chapter 3, Lessons 1,2,& 3
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Basic Needs | food, water, air and shelter that an organism needs to survive |
| Food | plants make their own by using sunlight, other organisms absorb or eat things |
| Water | plants get this from rain, animals get this from lakes, puddles or stream or from the food they eat |
| Air | plants take in carbon dioxide, animals breathe in this or take it in through their gills in water. |
| Shelter | a place that protects the organism. Example: houses, logs, rocks, burrows, under trees, tall grass |
| Adaptation | a body part or a behavior that a living thing gets from its parents that helps it survive |
| Camouflage | an adaptation where an organism blends into its environment |
| Mimicry | an adaptation where an organism pretends to be something else to help it hide. Ex: a walking stick looks like a stick, a viceroy butterfly looks like the poisonous monarch butterfly |
| Scales | keeps a reptile from drying out |
| Frogs | they have long tongues to help catch insects |
| Lions | this animal has fast speed to catch prey, sharp teeth and long claws |
| Birds | these have different beaks for different food |
| Migration | when an animal moves to a new place during different seasons to find food, water, and shelter. Ex: whales and monarch butterflies |
| Hibernation | when an animal's body slows because of a change in their environment. Heart rate and breathing rate slow down so the animal can survive with less food and oxygen. |
| Natural Selection | the process by which organisms with favorable traits are more likely to survive and produce offspring. Survival of the fittest. |
| Instinct | a behavior that an animal begins life with Example: sucking, crying, hibernation, migration |
| Learned behavior | a behavior that you do not begin life with. Example: hunting, writing, playing sports |
| Fossil | the remains (shapes) of a plant or animal that lived long ago, used to see how animals have changed |
| Extinction | death of all members of a group caused by habitat change, increase of predators or decrease of food |
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