Environments & Survival and Fossils

What is the definition of a trait?

• to stay alive

• a living thing

• something that can be observed about an organism, such as color or size

• a description of how something works or why something happens

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What is an organism?

• the parts and the way those parts work

• a living thing, such as a plant or an animal

• an animal that hunts and eats other animals

• humans

What is an environment?

• the differences in traits or organisms in a population

• making it easier for an organism to meet its needs

• all the living and nonliving things in an area

• outside

In a population, are organisms with adaptive traits more likely to survive in their environment?

• yes

• no

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What something can do

• trait

• structure

• predator

• function

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An animal that hunts and eats other animals

• non-adaptive

• organism

• animal

• predator

The way something is shaped or what it is made out of that makes it good for a specific function

• trait

• structure

• adaptive

• function

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Define variations

• similarities

• differences

• traits

• data

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Something that can be observed about an organism, such as color or size

• survive

• reproduce

• adaptive

• traits

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To stay alive

• inference

• data

• survive

• adaptive

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