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Unit 1 Reading
Key terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Adaptation | something that helps an animal survive better in an environment. |
| survive | to stay alive. |
| Survival | the state of enduring or continuing to be alive. |
| environment | the surroundings in which a person, animal, or plant lives. |
| characteristic | a quality that makes a person, animal, thing, or group different from others. |
| advantage | something that improves something or someone and helps it succeed. |
| blending in | to look similar to the things around them. |
| Function | the special purposes for which things are used. |
| classified | to be grouped with other things that share its qualities. |
| role | A special purpose or job a person or object has. |
| Various | several different kinds of something. |
| consume | to eat or drink. |
| frigid | freezing cold. |
| sheds | to gets rid of or removes a covering. |
| Special features | qualities that are unusual or unique. |
| verb | action words |
| noun | person, place, thing |
| abstract noun | idea, feelings |