Unit 1 Ecosystems Vocabulary

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Trait

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Helps you tell things apart, feature or characteristic. Examples: color, height, and shape.

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Adaptation

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Special traits or ways of acting that help a living thing to survive or stay alive.

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Survive

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To stay alive.

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Reproduce

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To make young; plants use seeds to make new plants.

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Migrate

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Move from one place to another.

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Hibernate

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To go into a kind of deep sleep.

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Camouflage

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Blend in or hide from predators or prey in their environments.

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Ecosystem

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All the living and nonliving things that interact with each other.

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Habitat

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The place in an ecosystem where a plant or animal lives.

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Mimicry

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The act of imitating or copying something else.