Adaptations Flashcards

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What are the 2 different types of variations?

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Genetic & Enviromental

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What is an adaptation?

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Changes that occur in organisms over a long period of time which give them an advantage to survive in their enviroment.

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What is interspecific and intraspecific competition?

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Inter - Between 2 or more species.

Intra - Within a single species.

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What’s a fossil?

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The remains or imprint of a preserved organism in a rock.

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What causes evolution?

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Natural Selection

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Who discovered natural selection?

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Charles Darwin

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