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7th - Ch. 5 Vocab
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adaptation | inheritance of traits that allow an organism to survive in a particular environment |
evolution | change in a species over time |
naturalist | a person who studies the natural world including plants, rocks, and animals |
natural selection | the process by which organisms, with traits that help them adapt to a changing environment, are able to successfully reproduce |
behavioral adaptation | an adaptation in which a specific action, such as nest building, allows a species to survive in its environment |
camouflage | a structural adaptation that allows an organism to blend in with its surroundings |
extinct | no longer existing |
mimicry | an adaptation that allows one species to look like or act like another species in order to fool a third species |
structural adaptation | an adaptation that is expressed in a physical body structure |