Adaptation Vocabulary Review

Adaptation

• A change that allows an organism to survive better in its environment.

• The action of finding advantageous traits and characteristics

• to adopt a beneficial structure to help an organism survive

• the way an organism looks based on its genotype

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Structure

• The way something is linked to another of its kind

• the arrangement of and relations between the parts or elements of something complex

• How something works

• The ability of something to connect to something else

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Function

• The ability of something to behave logically

• The way something looks

• How something is put together

• How something works

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Camouflage

• The ability of an organism to copy another organism for survival

• A defense mechanism that organisms use to disguise their appearance, usually to blend in with their surroundings.

• The way an organism can communicate with another organism

• The ability of an organism to interact with the biotic and abiotic features in its environment

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Migration

• The ability of an organism to blend into its environment

• The reduction of metabolism that allows an organism to sleep through changes in its environment

• Seasonal movement of animals from one place to another.

• The ability of an organism to act like another organism to reduce detection of predators

Hibernation

• a long-term state in which body temperature is significantly decreased, metabolism slows drastically

• Ability of an organism to create a place to sleep so it is not found by predators

• A seasonal pattern of movement from one location to another

• The creation of certain chemicals that allow an organism to escape predators

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Appendage

• a part of the body of an organism that can be removed and regrown

•  an external body part, or natural prolongation, that protrudes from an organism's body.

• a part of the organism that can cover a wound

• the ability of an organism to escape from a predator

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Population

• the number of different species that inhabit an area

• the number of individuals that can hibernate to survive

• the number of individuals of a particular species in an area

• the number of abiotic and biotic factors in an environment

Natural selection

• the process whereby organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring.

• the process of humans selecting individuals to breed together based on special characteristics.

• the process of capturing prey in order to survive

• the ability of humans to create new breeds of organisms that will survive and reproduce in their environment

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Selective breeding

• the ability of a species of organisms to survive

• the process of organisms adaptations giving them an advantage over another in their environment

• also known as artificial selection, is a process used by humans to develop new organisms with desirable characteristics.

• the process of changing characteristics over a long period of time based on advantageous characteristics

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