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5th Gr. Science Voc1
5th Grade Science Vocabulary Words for October 8 - October 12. List 1
Word | Meaning |
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adaptation | a structure or behavior that helps an organism survive in its surroundings |
function | the job that a body part does in an organism |
strucure | a body part that does have a certain job for an organism |
structrual adaptations | an adaptation of an organism's body parts or its coloring |
mimicry | one organism looking like another kind of organism in it environment so it can escape preditors or catch prey. |
behavioral adaptation | an inherited behavior that helps an organsim survive |
fossil | the remains or traces of an organism that lived long ago |
mold | a fossil that formed when when an organism pressed into mud, leaving a shape that hardened into rock |
cast | a fossil that formed when a space left by an organism was filled with minerals or grains of rock that turned into solid rock |
petrified fossil | a fossil that formed when the hard parts of an organism were replaced by minerals |