Environmental Science Vocabulary Test

A plant or animal species that is no longer living or existing

• adaptation
• succession
• fossil
• extinction

Consists of all living and nonliving things in an area

• environment
• mold
• index fossil 
• instinct

Large events, caused bu climate change

• cast
• mass extinctions
• behavioral adaptation
• mold

Is a characteristic that helps a living thing survive

• succession
• physical adaptation
• adaptation
• environment

Help to identify a very short period of Earth's history

• instinct
• mass extinction
• fossil
• index fossil

Is an adaptation to a body part

• Physical Adaptation
• Behavioral Adaptation
• Mold
• Fossil

Can form if a mold is later filled with mud that hardens

• mold
• cast
• instinct
• adaptation

Is something an organism does to help it survive

• adaptation
• behavioral adaptation
• succession
• instinct

Mold or cast fossils were made when a leaf was pressed into soft mud, leaving a hollow space

• succession
• instinct
• fossil
• mold

Is an inherited behavior an animal knows how to do without having to learn it

• succession
• fossil
• instinct
• cast