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Enviro science ch 4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| ecosystem | a community of organims and their abiotic environment ec |
| biotic factor | an enviromental factor that is associated with or results from the activities of living organisms bi |
| abiotic factor | describes the nonliving part of the environment , including water, rocks, light, and temperature ab |
| organism | a living thing, anything that can carry out life processes independently or |
| species | a group of organisms that are closely related and can mate to reproduce fertile offspring also the level of classification below genus and above species |
| population | a group of organism s of the same species that live in a specific geographical area and interbreed po |
| community | a group of various species that live in the same habitat and interact with each other co |
| habitat | the place where an organism usually lives ha |
| natural selection | the process by which individuals that are better adapted to their environment survive and reproduce more successfully than less adapted individuals do, a theory to explain the mechanism of evolution ns |
| evolution | a heritage change in the chachteristics within a population from one generation to the next, the development of new types of organisms from preexsiting types of organisms over time ev |
| adaption | the process of becoming adapted to an environment, an anatomical, physiological, or behavioral change ad |
| artificial selection | the selective breeding of organisms for specific desirable characteristics ar |
| resistance | in biology,the ability of an organism to tolerate a chemical or disease-causing agent re |
| archaea | prokaryotes (most of which are known to live in extreme environments) that are distinguished from other prokaryotes by different in their genetics and in the makeup of their cell wall, members of the domain archaea (singular, archaeon) |
| bactera | extremely small, single-celled organisms that usually have a cell wall and reproduce by cell division ba |
| fungus | an organism whose cells have nuclei, rigid cell walls and no chlorophyll and that belongs to the kingdom fungi |
| protist | an organism that belongs to the kingdom protist |
| gymnosperm | a woody vascular seed plan whose seeds are not enclosed by an vary or fruit |
| angiosperm | a flowering plant that produces seeds within a fruit an |
| invertabrate | an animal that does not have a backbone |
| vertebrate | an animal that has a backbone, includes mammals birds reptiles amphibians and fish |
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