Unit 5, Ch. 1 Vocab and Key Concept Review

a group of the same type of organism living in the same area

• population

• variation

• environment

• distribution

Information collected with your senses.

• population

• observation

• trait

• environment

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-8

a specific characteristic of an individual organism

• population

• observation

• variation

• trait

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

any difference in traits between individual organisms

• distribution

• variation

• envrironment

• observation

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

the number of individuals with each trait in a population

• environment

• observation

• variation

• distribution

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

everything (living and nonliving) that surrounds an organism

• environment

• variation

• distribution

• population

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

a trait that makes it more likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment

• adaptive trait

• non-adaptive trait

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

a trait that makes it less likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment

• adaptive trait

• non-adaptive trait

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

A non-adaptive trait is a bad trait that will harm an organism.

• True

• False

A population can be described by the ________________ present and by the number of individuals who have each trait.

• organisms

• traits

• living things

• animals

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4