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Natural Selction
Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Charles Darwin | 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 | an adjustment to environmental conditions, a biological trait that helps an organism survive |
| Habitat | other organism lives and finds the resources it needs to survive |
| Natural Selection | the process where organisms with heritable traits better suited to their environment survive longer and reproduce more |
| Hypothesis | a proposed, testable explanation for a phenomenon, observation, or research question that has not yet been proven |
| Variation | any change, difference, or deviation in condition, amount, level, form, or standard from a norm |
| Species | the basic unit of biological classification and taxonomic rank that sits immediately below a genus |
| Evolve | to develop gradually over time |
| Population | All members of the same species living in the same area at the same time |
| Predator | An animal that hunts and eats other animals |
| Prey | An animal that is hunted and eaten by a predator |
| Enironment | All the living and nonliving things around an organism that affect its life |
| Evolution | The change in inherited traits of populations over many generations |
| Decomposers | Organisms,, such as fungi and many bacteria, that break down dead organisms |
| Extinction | The permanet disappearance |