| Term | Definition |
|---|
| adaptation | the acquisition of traits that allows a species to survive in an environment |
| natural selection | the process of better selected individuals passing their traits to the next generation |
| selection pressures | pressure of an environment on organisms for living |
| ecological niche | describes either the role played by a species in a biological community or the total set of environmental factors that determine a species distribution |
| competitive exclusion principle | states that no two species can occupy the same niche for long |
| competition | type of antagonistic relationship within a biological community |
| coevolution | the response of predator to prey and vice versa, over tens of thousands of years, produces physical/behavioral changes |
| disturbance | any force that changes the ecosystem |
| primary succession | land that is bare of soil is colonized by living organisms where none lived previously |
| secondary succession | through a disturbance, a new community develops from the biological legacy of the old community |
| selective pressure | leads to force something into natural selection |
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