Science Adaptations Project
Published on Nov 18, 2015
Science vocabulary words for chapter one section three.
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
ADAPTATIONS:
A behavior or physical characteristic that allows an organism to live successfully in its environment
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Deer Adaptations and Uses- Brown-colored body and curved ears; they hide easily from other animals with their camouflage and they can hear animals approaching them from far away
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Owl Adaptations and Uses- night vision and 360 degree head-turning; they can see great at night with their vision and they can turn their heads almost all the way around to see if anyone is coming
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Elephant Adaptations and Uses- Size and trunk; their massive size protects them from wild animals and their trunks can get food from high-up places
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Predation Definition:
An interaction in which one organism kills another for food
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Predator- Wolf
Prey- Deer
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Symbiosis Definition:
A close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of the species
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Mutualism Definition:
A relationship between two species in which both species benefit
Examples- dogs comforting humans and humans giving them food, water, and shelter and bees getting pollen from flowers then pollinating other flowers
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Commensalism Definition:
A relationship between two species in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed
Examples- bird eating insects off of hippo and a spider builds a web on a tree
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Parasitism Definition:
A relationship in which one organism lives on or in a host and harms it
Examples- tapeworm inside human and eating most of the human's nutrients and mosquitoes sucking your blood
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Parasite Definition:
An organism that lives inside or on another organism and takes food from the organism in or which it lives
Host Definition:
An organism that provides food to a parasite that lives on or inside it
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Natural Selection:
A process by which characteristics that make an individual better suited to its environment become more common in a species
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Niche:
The role of an organism in its habitat, or how it makes its living
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Competition:
The struggle between organisms to survive as they attempt to use the same limited resource
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