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Habitats of Georgia
Vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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Adaptation | a trait that helps a living thing survive |
Balance | not too many and not too few of a kind of living thing |
Coastal Plain | an area of low, flat land near an ocean |
Coast | Land next to the ocean or sea; the seashore |
Drought | a long period of time with very little rain |
Ecosystem | all the living and nonliving things that interact in a place |
Environment | everything that is around a living thing |
Habitat | the place where a plant or an animal lives |
Hibernate | to spend the winter in a kind of deep sleep |
Marsh | low-lying wetland with grassy vegetation |
Migrate | to travel from one place to another and back again |
Mountain | a high, raised part of Earth's surface |
Piedmont | an area, with many hills, located between the mountains and the coastal plain |
Pollution | contamination of soil, air, water, or air by harmful substances |
Reproduce | to produce new living things |
Swamp | An area of low-lying wet or seasonally flooded land, that has trees, dense shrubs or thickets. Also known as the "trembling land" |
Survive | to stay alive |
Trait | a characteristic, or feature, of a plant or animal |
Wetland | land that is covered with water most of the time |