Term | Definition |
Diversity | The degree of variation of living things present in a particular ecosystem |
Genetic Variation | The alleles of organisms within a population change. This change may result from mutation, gene flow, or sexual reproduction |
Natural Selection | The process by which organisms that are best adapted to their environment are most likely to survive and reproduce |
Species | A group of similar organisms that can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce |
Adaptations | An inherited behavior or physical characteristic that helps an organism survive and reproduce in it environment |
Environmental Factors | Known characteristics in an environment that impact the survival, and growth of an organism |
Geographical Isolation | Group of plants, animals or other living creatures being separated from the other members of the species by a natural barrier |
Extinction | The disappearance of all members of a species from Earth |
Fossil | The preserved remains of traces of an organism that lived in the past |
Climate Change | A long-term change in the earth's climate, especially a change due to an increase in the average atmospheric temperature |
Theory of Evolution | Theory that the differences between modern plants and animals are because of changes that happened by a natural process over a very long time |
Non-native Species | An introduced, exotic, non-native species, or simply an introduction, is a species living outside its native distributional range, which has arrived there by human activity, either deliberate or accidental |
Food Scarcity | Insufficiency of amount or supply of food |
Evidence | The available body of facts or information indicating whether a belief or proposition is true or valid |
Scientific Knowledge | General truths of the operation of general laws, esp. as obtained and tested through scientific method concerned with the physical world |