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natural selection
vicabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Charles Darwin | was a legendary English naturalist, geologist, and biologist |
| Migration | Migration is the movement of people, animals, or organisms from one place to another. |
| Adaptation | a change that helps a person, organism, or creative work fit a new environment or medium |
| habitat | the natural environment where an organism lives |
| Natural selection | the differential survival and reproduction of individuals due to differences in their observable traits and genetic makeup |
| hypothesis | a proposed, testable explanation for a phenomenon, observation, or research question that has not yet been proven |
| variation | difference in traits among indirvisiuals of the same species such as size color or speed |
| species | a group of similar organisms that can reproduce with one another and produce fertile offspring |
| evolve | to change in inherited traits over many organisms |
| populations | all members of the same species living in the same area at the same time |
| predator | an animel that hunts and eats other animals |
| prey | an animal thatis hunted and eaten by a predetor |
| enviorment | all the living and non livening things around an organism that affects its life |
| evolulation | the change in inherted traits |
| decomposers | organism such as fungi and many bacteria |
| extintion | permenant desappearance |
| climate | the usual pattern of weather |
| hibernate | to spend a period in one spot during winter |
| biomes | large regions of earth |
| fitness | how well an organism survives and reeproduces |