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Natural Selection

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TermDefinition
Charles Darwin groundbreaking English naturalist, geologist, and biologist
Migration the movement of people, animals, or organisms away from their usual place of residence to a new location
Adaptation the biological process of a living organism evolving to fit its environment
Habitat the natural environment where a plant, animal, or other organism lives and finds everything it needs to survive
Natural Selection the process where organisms with heritable traits better suited to their environment survive longer
Hypothesis a proposed, testable explanation for a phenomenon
Variation any change
Species the basic unit of biological classification
Evolve to change or develop gradually over time
Population all the members of the same species
Predator An animal that hunts and eats other animals
Prey An animal that is hunted
Environment the surrounding conditions
Evolution the change in the heritable characteristics
Decomposers break down dead or decaying organic matter,
Extinction dying out
Climate the long-term patterns, averages, and variability of weather conditions
Hibernate metabolic reduction entered by certain animal species to survive harsh winter months when food is scarce
Biomes a large, naturally occurring community of flora (plants) and fauna (animals)
Fitness an organism's relative ability to survive
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