Natural Selection Vocabulary

Match the following

• Organisms that can reproduce, have similar characteristics, and have a common gene pool.

• Diversity

• A variation in a plant or animal that increases it chance of survival in its environment.

• Species

• The process by which animals and plants grow and develop.

• Adaptation

• Process where traits and organisms that are best adapted to the environment survive and reproduce.

• Development

• The variation of life forms present in different ecosystems.

• Natural Selection

Match the following

• Species

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• Natural Selection

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• Diversity

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• Development

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• Adaptation

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A process in nature where traits and organisms that are best adapted to the environment survive and reproduce.

A variation in a plant or animal that increases it chance of survival in its environment.

The process by which animals and plants grow and develop.

The evolutionary tendency of organisms with a common ancestor to develop different adaptations or traits and become less related.

A taxonomic category referring to organisms that can reproduce with one another, have similar characteristics, and have a common gene pool.

Draw your own example of natural selection.

Draw an example of an adaptation.

Create a definition for diversity in your own words. Be sure to use a complete sentence.

(You can start with: Diversity is...)

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