Natural selection ch1 vocab

a statement that something is true or is a fact.

• refute

• cause

• effect

• claim

an idea about what might happen that is based on what you already know

• Prediction

• Educated guess

• Hypothesis

• Claim

a specific characteristic of an individual organism

• Adaptation

• Trait

• Variation

• Distribution

a statement that something is true or is a fact.

• claim

• distribution

• cause

• effect

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

• Community

• Individuals

• Ecosystem

• Population

the process by which the distribution of traits in a population changes over many generations

• Evolution

• Mutation

• Adaptive Trait

• Natural selection

any difference in traits between individual organisms

• Distribution

• Adaptive trait

• Variation

• Non-adaptive trait

a result or change that happens because of an event or process.

• Effect

• Cause

• Trait

• Variation

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

• Adaptive Trait

• Nonadaptive trait

• population

• Genergation

anything that can be used to show something exists.

• Claim

• Evidence

• Effect

• Trait