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natural selection
vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Charles darwin | Charles Darwin (1809–1882) was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist best known for developing the scientific theory of evolution by natural selection. |
| migration | the movement of people, animals, or things from one place to another |
| adaptation | a biological trait that helps an organism survive |
| habitat | the natural environment or place where an organism or a biological population lives, grows, and reproduces |
| natural selection | the process where organisms with heritable traits better suited to their environment survive longer and reproduce more, causing those advantageous traits to become more common over generations |
| hypothesis | a prediction |
| 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 change in inherited traits |
| 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 |
| enviroment | all the living things and nonliving things around an organism |
| evolution | the change in inherited traits of population |
| decomposers | organisms such as things like fungi, and bacteria. |
| extinction | the disapearance of a spicies |
| climate | the usual pattern of weather in a place over a long period of time. |
| hibernate | to spend a period in a state of grately reduced activity |
| biomes | large regions of earth with simaliar climates |
| fitness | how well an organism survives and reproduces in its enviroment. |