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Terms to learn: Jargon buster Adapting to the extreme Adaptation Organisms develop features to become adapted to their surrounding environment. This allows them to live in a certain habitat Annelid Invertebrate with a round, worm-like body in segments Carnivores An animal that eats other animals Characteristics The features plants or animals have to adapt to their surrounding environment Classification Grouping together organisms with similar features Cnidarian Invertebrates with thin, sack-like bodies Community All the organisms living in the same habitat Competition The fight for resources that are in limited supply by plants and animals in a habitat. This can be within the same population (the same species) or the same community (between different species) Crustacean Arthropod with chalky shell and jointed legs Darwin theory The theory that, genetically speaking, the fittest organisms will survive i.e. those that are best adapted to living in their environment. They will successfully breed and pass on their genes to the next generation Echinoderm Invertebrate with body usually divided into five parts Ecology The study of how living things interact with one another and their environment Ecosystem Both the living organisms in an area and the environmental factors which affect them Environment An organisms surroundings Environmental factor Things which change an organism. For example, wave crash may affect where rocky shore organisms are able to settle Environmental Variation Change(s) caused in an organism by environmental factors Feature Characteristics organisms may have to surviving in their environment. Limpets have a strong, muscular foot for example to stick to rocks on the rocky shore Habitat The place where an organism lives Organism Any living plant or animal Photosynthesis The process by which plants make their energy using water, carbon dioxide and sunlight Population A group of the same species living within a community Species A group of living things that have many similar features and that can successfully interbreed