Vocabulary
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- Acclimation
- The process of an organisms adjustment to an abiotic factor.
- habitat
- the type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives or occurs
- Dormancy
- State of reduced activity, during periodsof unfavorable environmental conditions.
- Regulators
- Organisms that use energy to control soe of their internal conditions.
- Niche
- A species' way of life, or the role the species plays in its environment.
- Hunter-Gatherer Style
- Hunting animals and gathering roots, berries, nuts, shellfish, and fruits.
- Specialists
- Species that have narrow niches, such as Koalas.
- Dispersion
- the spatial property of being scattered about over an area or volume
- Biosphere
- The thin volume of EArth and its atmosphere that supports life.
- Confromers
- Organisms that don't regulate their internal conditions;