7th Grade

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7th Grade Unit 4 Inherited and Adaptive Traits
for Survival Lesson 2 Comparing Animal and
Plant Traits Vocabulary of Instruction
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Adaptation

• Changes in an organism's physiological structure
  or function or habits that allow it to survive in
  new surroundings.

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Camouflage

• Structural and/or phenotypical adaptations that
  enables species to blend with their surroundings
  allows a species to avoid detection by predators.

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Environmental Conditions

• The ways things are in an environment or biome.
  It includes climate, soil, and vegetation.

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Inherited Traits

• Traits or characters that are genetically
  inherited features of an organism.

Light Hair
Brown Hair
Straight Hair
Curly Hair
No Hair on Fingers
Curled Tongue
Hair on Fingers
Not Curled Tongue
Brown Eyes
Blue Eyes
Widows Peak
No Peak
Bent Little Finger
Straight Little Finger
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Survival

• Is living despite bad circumstances (extreme
  climate, lack of food or water, lack of shelter).

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Survival of the Fittest

• A natural process resulting in the evolution of
  the organisms that are best adapted to the
  environment.