​Changes in the environment affect all organisms that make a specific ecosystem their home. These changes affect both current and subsequent populations.

​Environmental Change: is a change or disturbance of the environment caused by human influences, natural disasters, or ecological processes.

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Short term Changes: Affect the survival of population immediately, but don't necessarily affect genetics. Organisms do not have time to adapt.




Long Term Changes: Occur over long periods of time. Organisms may adapt to change.

Organisms adapt to the conditions of the ecosystem they live in. Two kinds of adaptations that can occur in response to changes are structural and behavioral

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Adaptations

These actions that the organism takes to survive.

These adaptations are learned.

Behavioral

These are Physical adaptations.

They are inherited genetically.

Structural

Adaptations