| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Inherited Trait | Factors that are obtained from the parent generation. |
| Learned Characteristics | Things about you that you did not inherit from your parents but instead learned how to do |
| Influence | Things all around you that cause you to want to do a particular thing. |
| Gregor Mendel | An Austrian monk that carried out breeding experiments on different varieties of the garden pea. The heredity patterns that he discovered form the basis of genetics. |
| Generation | A single stage of descent or a group of organisms reproduced by the same parent(s) |
| Offspring | A product of reproduction; the next generation of reproduced organisms. |
| Adaptation | Characteristic that helps an organism adjust to and survive in its environment. |
| Niche | A special role that an organism plays within its environment. (What they are good at) |
| Niche | A special role that an organism plays within its environment. (What they are good at) |
| Ecosystem | All of the living and nonliving parts of an environment |
| Characteristic | A feature of a person, plant, animal, or object that helps identify it. |
| Organism | A living thing |
| Food Web | Interconnected food chains in an ecosystem |
| Food Chain | The series of steps by which energy moves through an ecosystem |
| Producer | Organism, like a plant, that uses light energy from the Sun to make food. |
| Consumer | Animal that gets its energy by eating producers (plant) or other consumers (animals). |
| Food Chain | The series of steps by which energy moves through an ecosystem |
| Producer | Organism, like a plant, that uses light energy from the Sun to make food. |
| Consumer | Animal that gets its energy by eating producers (plant) or other consumers (animals). |
| Predator | An animal that hunts, kills, and eats other animals |
| Decomposer | Organism that breaks down dead matter to get the energy it needs |
| Ecosystem | All of the living and nonliving parts of an environment |
| Photosynthesis | The process that plants use to make food from sunlight. |
| Herbivores | Plant-eating animals. |
| Carnivores | Meat-eating animals |
| Omnivores | Animals that eat both plants and meat |
| Scavengers | Organisms that prey on dead organisms (vulture). |
| Carrion | Dead organisms in an ecosystem. |
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