Vocabulary Lesson Elephants Part 2 and 8

Factors in the environment that prevent populations from growing out of control

• exponential growth

• logistical growth

• Limiting Factors

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Passing traits from parent to offspring

• inheritance

• genetics

• reproduction

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Those with the best traits suited for the environment will survive is a way to describe

• genetics

• natural selection

• inheritance

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Factors in the environment such as hunting, and predators are considered _ pressure when they favor one or more traits resulting in natural selection

• selective

• resource

• optimal

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The function or the role an organism plays in the environment is called it's _

• niche

• habitat

• metabolism

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Dividing resources in a way to minimize competition

• niche partitioning

• perimeter resources

• habitiat

___ is/are required by an organism for normal growth, maintenance, and reproduction

• niche

• temperature

• resources

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When two organisms both need the same resource this results in _

• competition

• reproduction

• habitat

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A tool used in research to identify characteristics or a specific group of organisms such as grasses that herbivores eat.

• DNA metabarcoding

• gel elctrophoresis

• karyotyping

Animals that regurgitate their plant matter to better digest it. examples are sheep and cattle

• ruminant

• herbivore

• succulent