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| adaptation | any body part, behavior, or physiological capability that increases an animal's ability to survive in its environment |
| behavior | anything an animal does involving action and/or response to stimulation |
| biome | The world's major communities, classified according to the predominant vegetation and characterized by adaptation of organisms to that particular environment |
| camouflage | coloration that blends in with the surrounding environment |
| conservation | taking care of our environment by wisely managing its resources |
| ecosystem | a unit of plants, animals, and nonliving components of an environment that interact |
| environment | - the total surroundings and forces that act upon a living thing |
| endangered species | a species of plant or animal of which numbers are decreasing at an alarming rate and is threatened with extinction by human-made or natural changes in the environment |
| extinct | no longer existing on the Earth |
| habitat | the place where an animal lives |
| herbivore | an animal that eats only plants |
| carnivore | an animal that eats only animals |
| omnivore | an animal that eats both plants and animals |
| invertebrate | an organism with no backbone |
| predator | an animal that eats other animals |
| prey | v: to hunt and eat other animals. n: an animal eaten by another animal |
| vertebrate | an organism with a backbone |
