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Natrul Selection
vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Charles darwin | A scientist who developed the theory of evolution by natural selection after studying how living things vary and adapt over time |
| migration | the movement of animals from one place to often to find food reproduce or reproduce or reach a more suitable climate |
| Adaptation | An inherited trait or behavior that helps an organism survive and reproduce in its environment |
| habitat | The natural place where an organism lives and get the food water shelter and other things it needs |
| natural section | The process in which organisms with helpful inherited traits are more likely survive and reproduce |
| hypothesis | A possible explanation or prediction that can be tested through investigationor evidence |
| variation | biffrernces in traits among individuals of the same species of the same species such as size color speed |
| species | A group of similar organisms organisms that can reproduce with one another and produces fertile offspring |
| Evolve | the change in inherited traits over many generations |
| population | all the members of the same species living in the same area at the same time |
| predator | An animal that hunts and eats other animals |
| perey | An animal that is hunted and eaten by a predator |
| environment | all the living and nonliving things around an organism that affectits life |
| evolution | The change in inherited traits over mayegeneration |
| decomposer | orgaanisme such as fungi and many bacteria that break down |
| extinction | the permanent disappearance of a species when all its memberes have died |