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**"Adaptation in Nature: Survival Strategies of Organisms"**

Explore the gradual changes organisms undergo to thrive in specific environments. Learn how biotic and abiotic factors influence adaptation, from camouflage to climate resilience. Discover the delicate balance of ecosystems and the interconnectedness of life forms.

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**"Adaptation in Nature: Survival Strategies of Organisms"**

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  1. Adaptation

  2. A gradual change in an organism that enables it to survive in a particular environment.

  3. Algae

  4. Nonvascular plants that are often found in aquatic or marine environments and provides both food and a place for organisms to live.

  5. Acid Rain

  6. Rain that is contaminated with pollutants such as sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide gases.

  7. Adapt

  8. Change; to change in order to fit a new situation or use.

  9. Abiotic Factors

  10. The nonliving parts of the environment.

  11. Aquatic

  12. Living in water.

  13. Benthos

  14. Bottom-dwelling organisms.

  15. Biome

  16. The natural place in a particular climate where many plants and animals live.

  17. Biosphere

  18. Encompasses all areas of the Earth — land, air and water — that support life.

  19. Biotic Factors

  20. The living parts of the environment.

  21. Camouflage

  22. Exploit the natural surroundings to disguise something.

  23. Carbon Cycle

  24. The cycle in which carbon flows through the environment and living things.

  25. Carnivore

  26. A consumer that eats only meat from animals or insects.

  27. Carry Capacity

  28. The largest population that an area can support.

  29. Classify

  30. To group things together because they share one or more properties.

  31. Climate Time/year temperature

  32. The average and variations of weather in a region over long periods of time.

  33. Co-exist

  34. Exist together.

  35. Commensalism

  36. Relationship in which one species benefits and the other species is neither helped nor harmed.

  37. Community

  38. All of the populations that live in the same area.

  39. Competition

  40. The struggle between organisms to survive as they attempt to use the same limited resources.

  41. Consumer

  42. An organism that feeds on other organisms or organic matter because it cannot make its own food

  43. Decay

  44. The process where bacteria and other decomposers break down dead things.

  45. Deciduous

  46. Describes a plant whose leaves fall off seasonally, or a leaf which falls off seasonally.

  47. Decomposers

  48. Members of an ecosystem that break down organic material so it may be used again (or recycled) by the ecosystem.

  49. Deforestation

  50. The clearing of forest lands.

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