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Characteristics that help an organism adjust to and survive in its environment

 What are adaptations?

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 The role or job of an organism-how it meets its needs and affects other organisms

 What is a niche?

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 The process in which plants create food using sunlight, chlorophyll, water and CO2

 What is photosynthesis?

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 The process through which carbon is cycled through the air, ground, plants, animals and fossil fuels

 What is the carbon cycle?

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 Chemical codes found in all living things

 What are genes?

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 Leaf shape pattern

 Inherited trait

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 Sheepdog herding sheep into a particular formation

 Learned behavior

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 Blue jay eats only particular patterned butterflies

 Learned behavior

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 Person curling their tongue

Inherited trait

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 Shallow spreading roots  Waxy surface  Spines for leaves  Store water inside main body

 What are cacti?

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 Thick fur coat that changes with the season  Claws  Long back legs  Sensitive nose  Blunt front teeth

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 Male bird builds nest from rocks before female arrives

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 webbed toes  Streamline bodies  Thick fur  Exceptional swimmers

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 Flightless bird of the rainforest  Long beak  Special claws for running, digging and defense

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 Nitrates, nitrites, legumes, soil, air, ammonia

 What are the interacting factors of the Nitrogen Cycle?

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 A biome that began as weathered rock from wind and water

 What is the desert?

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 Kelp forests are found in this biome

 What are oceanic biomes?

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 Little precipitation  no trees  Grasses, mosses, lichens  Flowers  Cold and windy location

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 Highly seasonal biome  Wildfires help maintain existence  Major region for crop growing

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 Highly seasonal-warm summers and cold winters  Deciduous, pine and fur trees  Middle latitude

 What are temperate forests?

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 Long or short  Scooped or straight  Hooked or curved

 What are bird beak adaptations?

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 The major gas in our atmosphere

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 A thick layer of fat, sharp teeth, flippers, and eats penguins

 What is a leopard seal?

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 An Austrian monk’s experimentations with the garden pea explored the basis that set heredity patterns

 Who was Gregor Mendel?

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(SUN) plants, herbivores, carnivores, omnivores plants, herbivores, carnivores, omnivores

 What are the 4 levels of a food chain?

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