Vocabulary I
Characteristics or features of an organism that help describe what it is like.
What are traits?
To produce offspring, such as when plants or animals reproduce.
What is breed?
This type of severe weather forms over warm ocean water and can bring strong winds and heavy rain.
What is a hurricane?
Salmon hatch in this type of water.
What is freshwater (rivers)?
This type of environment is home to fish, eels, and coral.
What is a coral reef?
This is a place where many people live, work, and share resources.
What is a city?
This fruit is used as a real-world example of selective breeding over time.
What is a banana?
A group of the same kind of living things that live in the same area.
What is population?
Things we use to meet our needs and accomplish tasks, like water, fuel, or electricity.
What are resources?
This hurricane effect happens when too much rain or ocean water covers land that is usually dry.
What is flooding?
This human-built structure could block salmon migration.
What is a dam?
In this relationship, one animal hunts and eats another.
What is a predator-prey relationship?
Moving people around a city is called this system.
What is transportation.
This process is used by humans to increase the likelihood of desired traits in plants.
What is selective breeding?
Natural resources that nature can make more over time.
What does renewable mean?
To predict something that will happen in the future, such as a storm.
What does forecast mean?
Hillsides in a city may be at greater risk for this hazard during heavy rain.
What are landslides?
Adult salmon migrate in this direction to reproduce.
What is upstream?
Over many generations, advantageous traits in a population become this.
What is more common?
This happens when more people move into or are born in a city over time.
What is population growth?
Humans selectively bred plants mainly to make traits more _____.
What are desirable or beneficial?
Traits that are passed from parents to their offspring.
What does inherited mean?
Describes a trait that gives an organism a benefit or improves its chance of success.
What does advantageous mean?
This is why different areas of a city can experience different levels of damage from the same hurricane.
What is location / elevation within the city?
A structure that helps salmon swim around a dam instead of through it.
What is a fish ladder?
Blending into the environment helps animals avoid predators by doing this.
What is camouflage?
Factories use resources to do this for the city.
What is produce goods?
Choosing parent plants with specific traits is an example of this human action?
What is influencing inheritance?
To make something less severe or harmful, especially the effects of a natural disaster.
What does mitigate mean?
Electricity created using the energy of flowing water, often with a dam.
What is hydroelectricity?
Meteorologists use this type of technology to track hurricanes in real life.
What are satellites?
This term describe young salmon preparing to migrate from freshwater to the ocean.
What are smolts?
Surviving fish pass their traits to the next generation through this process.
What is inheritance?
Using more resources can negatively affect this.
What is the environment?
Traits are passed from parent plants to offspring through these.
What are genes?