Unit 2 Vocabulary_Diversity of Living Things

A place in an ecosystem where an organism usually lives.

• Environment

• Habitat

• Grassland

• Community

When an organism evolves to closely resemble another organism; copying another organism's appearance 

• Polar

• Wetland

• Hibernation

• Mimicry

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NGSS.MS-LS1-4

All the populations of organisms belonging to different species and sharing the same geographical area

• Species

• Conservation

• Extinction

• Community

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The process by which organisms change over many generations and those best suited to their environment survive to pass on their traits and behaviors to the next generation of offspring

• Natural Selection

• Limiting Factors

• Pollution

• Ecosystem

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

A body part or behavior that helps a living thing survive

• Behavior

• Characteristic

• Adaptation

• Trait

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

An activity or action that generally helps an organism survive in its environment. Many are learned from experience, others inborn, like survival instincts

• Trait

• Characteristic

• Behavior

• Migration

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

In terms of wild organisms, living long enough to reproduce more of your own kind in large numbers

• Survival

• Instinct

• Migration

• Mimicry

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NGSS.MS-LS1-4

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A way of behaving, thinking, or feeling that is not learned; a natural desire or tendency that makes an organism act in a particular way

• Learned Behavior

• Instinct

• Characteristic

• Habitat

A dry area of land that receives very little rainfall and has little water available for plants and other organisms

• Grassland

• Polar

• Wetland

• Desert

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

A geographic area where plants, animals and other organisms, as well as weather and landscapes, work together to form a bubble of life.

• Population

• Ecosystem

• Environment

• Taiga

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

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