Topic 4- Adaptation For Survival Flashcards
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Adaptation
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Special feature that makes an organism particularly well suited to the environment where it lives.
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Competition
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The process by which living organisms compete with eachother for limited resources suck as food, light or reproductive partners.
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Extremophile
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Organism which lives in environments that are very extreme, for example very high or very low temperatures, high salt levels or high pressures.
4
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Indicator species
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Lichens or insects that are particularly sensitive to pollution and so can be used to indicate changes in the environmental pollution levels.
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Kingdom
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The highest group in the classification system, for example animals or plants.
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Territory
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An area where an animal lives and feeds, which it may mark out or defend against other animals.
