Environmental Changes Vocabulary & Concepts

A great amount

• abundance

• inherited characteristic

• variety of life

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an inherited characteristic that increases an organism's chance of survival

• biodiversity

• environmental change

• adaptation

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Biodiversity is

• changes in an environment

• variety of life

• characteristics of organisms

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the possibility a species could become extinct

• endangered

• mutation

• sustainability

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environmental change is described as

• breeding of organisms

• a disturbance in the environment

• changes in genetic material

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no longer living or existing

• endangered

• mutated

• extinct

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changes in the genetic material of a cell

• mutation

• adaptation

• variation

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A natural process resulting in changes to an organism leading to adaptations.

• Natural Selection

• selective breeding

• environmental change

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breeding organisms for a desired trait

• variation

• Natural Selection

• selective breeding

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the ability of an ecosystem to stay healthy & productive over time

• sustainability

• environmental change

• adaptations

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