Adaptations Vocabulary Review

_____ is a theory explaining that the organisms best suited to live in a particular environment are those most likely to survive.

• Species

• Inherited

• Survival of the Fittest

• Mutation

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

______ means passed on from parent to child.

• Species

• Inherited

• Survival of the Fittest

• Mutation

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NGSS.MS-LS3-2

_____is a group of related organisms with characteristics that disinguish them from other groups of organisms.

• Species

• Inherited

• Survival of the Fittest

• Mutation

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

What do we call an inherited behavior that leads an animal to act certain ways in certain situations?

• Instinct

• Reflex

• Species

• Inherited

A purely automatic response is called a ________.

• Instinct

• Reflex

• Speies

• Inherited

_______ is a change a living thing is born with that may alter how it grows and what it can do.

• Habitat

• Reflex

• Mutation

• Instinct

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NGSS.MS-LS3-1

What do we call living things?

• Naturalist

• Organisms

• Mutation

• Habitat

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

A _____ is a person who studies plants and animals.

• Naturalist

• Botanist

• Biologist

• Scientist

To change physical features or behaviors of a species in response to changes in the environment is to ________.

• Behavior

• Generation

• Adapt

• Extinct

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NGSS.MS-LS1-4

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

_____ is the natural conditions and environment in which a plant or animal lives.

• Behavior

• Generation

• Adapt

• Habitat