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| advantage | a characteristic that can help an individual compete |
| characteristic | the qualities an organism has |
| adaptation | a physical feature or behavior that helps an organism survive in its environment |
| inherit | to receive characteristics from an organism's parents |
| environment | everything that surrounds a living thing |
| competition | occurs when two or more living things need the same resources in order to survive |
| stimulus | something that causes a reaction in a living thing |
| nonnative | organisms that live outside of their usual habitat |
| ecosystem | a large community of living organisms in a place or area linked through nutrient and energy cycles (food chains/food webs) |
| food chain | shows the feeding relationship between plants and animals in a system |
| habitat | an area lived in by a particular species of animals, plant, or organism |
| food web | combines food chains to show the overlapping relationship between many plants, animals, and organisms |
