By using exponents, we can reformat numbers. This can be helpful, in much the same way that it's helpful (that is, it's easier) to write "twelve trillion" rather than 12,000,000,000,000., or "thirty nanometers" rather than "0.00000003<span> meters</span>
Adaptation is a response to the environment but long term.
For example:
<span>A wolf has a fur coat as an adaptation to the cold weather, but birds migrating south is a response to cold weather.</span>
I think your answer is a taxon
True Salinization mowers crop yields