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Science Vocabulary - Adaptation and Variation special body feature or behavior that helps an organism stay alive adaptation adaptation that helps an organism blend in with its surroundings camouflage consumer that eats only meat carnivore organism that eats other organisms in a food chain consumer all the population living in one area community organisms that feeds on and breaks down dead organisms decomposer the number of different species in an area diversity all the interacting living and nonliving things in one area ecosystem in danger of becoming extinct endangered species that has disappeared from Earth extinct shows how organisms get food and energy food chain the area in which an organism lives habitat consumer that eats only plants herbivore organism that a parasite lives in or on host adaptation in which an organism looks or acts like another organism mimicry nutrients omnivore organism parasite population predator prey producer scavenger species or thing, usually for protection things in food that organisms need to live consumer that eats either plants or animals living thing organism that lives in or on another organism and gets its food from it all the members of species living in one area animal that kills and eats other animals animal that is killed and eaten by other animals organism that makes its own food and serves as a source of food for other organisms consumer that eats dead plants or animals group of organisms that are the same Science Vocabulary - Adaptation and Variation – part 2 tiny parts that make up living things cells Something you can observe about a thing, such as how it looks or what it characteristic claim compare evidence genes fossil identify infer - verb inference- noun inherit mammals nectar observation - does a statement based on evidence, which often answers a question to notice how two or more things are alike or different clues that help explain something or answer a question instructions for making a living thing that are in cells and passed from parents to offspring evidence of life from the past, such as fossil bones, footprints, or leaf prints to figure out what something is or the group it belongs to to figure something out based on evidence something you figure out based on evidence To get information (genes) for certain characteristics from birth parents a group of animals with hair or fur that give birth to live babies, make milk, and are warm-blooded sweet liquid made in flowers information that you gather with your five senses noun observe - verb paleontologist pollen pollination related scientific community skull survive trait unique variation to use any of the five senses to gather information about something a scientist who studies species that lived in the past a dusty or sticky powder that is found in flowers and helps makes seeds the spreading of pollen from flower to flower coming from the same family or group of living things scientists around the world who share ways of thinking, ideas, information, theories, etc., . . . the bones inside an animal’s head to stay alive and pass on genes an inherited characteristic different from everything else differences in living things
