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24 Cards in this Set
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Natural Selection
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The process by which organisms best suited to their environment will survive and reproduce.
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Adaptation
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A change in an organism that makes it better able to survive in its environment.
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Camoflauge
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Any marking or coloring that helps an animal hide from other animals.
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Mimicry
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An animal's ability to copy the appearance or behavior of another unrelated organism.
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Ecosystem
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The interrelationshiops between living things and non-living things in an area or environment.
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Habitat
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A specific area where plants and animals live.
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Niche
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The function an organism plays in the habitat, or how an organism lives among other organisms in an ecosystem.
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Community
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The plants and animals living in an area.
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Population
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A number of organisms of one species in a certain area.
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Species
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Organisms that are grouped together due to the ability to interbreed.
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Homeostasis
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A balance or stability within an ecosystem.
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Producer
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All green plants which make foods. The basis of all food chains.
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Food Chain
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A chain of organisms that feed off each other passing energy onto the next level of the chain.
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Food Web
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A combination of food chains
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Consumer
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And organism that feeds on other organisms.
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Decomposer
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An organism that lives by breaking down other bodies and releasing minerals into the environment.
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Scavenger
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An animal that eats animals that are already dead.
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Herbivore
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Animals that eat plants.
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Carnivore
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An animal or plant that feeds off animals.
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Omnivore
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Animals that eat both plants and animals.
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Symbiosis
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The living together of two or more organisms of different species.
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Commensalism
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A relationship between organisms in which one benefits and the other is neithger hurt nor harmed.
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Parasitism
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A relationship between organisms in which one organism is harmed and the other benefits.
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Mutualism
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A relationship between organisms in which both organisms benefit.
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