Download 5 Jargon buster terms to learn adapting extreme

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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