Unit 5 vocabulary

Question 1

Adaptation

Answer 1

A change to an organism so it can live in its environment

Question 2

Dichotomous key

Answer 2

a tool to find what a specified is by specific characteristics

Question 3

Natural selection

Answer 3

organisms better adapted to their surroundings produce more offspring

Question 4

Population

Answer 4

the same species living in the same general area

Question 5

Selective breeding

Answer 5

Different species of parents doing unholy stuff to produce new offspring with different characteristics

Question 6

Species

Answer 6

a group of organisms of the semi same genes capable of interbreeding and or exchanging genes

Question 7

Hibernation

Answer 7

a state of semi forever existing sleep during the winter

Question 8

Migration

Answer 8

when animals move from 1 region to another

Question 9

Dormancy

Answer 9

inactive body parts locked for a period of time

Question 10

Mimicry

Answer 10

the copy of another organisms

Question 11

Camouflage

Answer 11

when an organism hide or blends in with its surroundings