Survival Vocabulary

Making it easier for an organism to meet its needs in an environment is

• adaptive

• non-adaptive

• environment

• inference

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

A living thing, such as a plant or animal is

• a predator

• prey

• an organism

• a trait

What something can do is its

• adaptation

• engineer

• design

• function

Tags

CCSS.RI.1.5

CCSS.RI.2.5

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

_______________ is a person who uses science knowledge design something in order to solve a problem.

• a designer

• a biomimicry

• a predator

• an engineer

a group of the same kind of organism living in the same area.

• animal population

• animal habitat

• animal trait

• animal variation

Something that can be observed about an organism, such as color and size.

• predator

• trait

• variation

• environment

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

To make offspring

• manufacture

• engineer

• reproduce

• survive

Getting engineering ideas from organisms' traits is called

• inferencing

• engineering

• copying

• biomimicry

A _______________ is something new made to solve a problem.

• design

• engineer

• adaptive

• structure

All the living and nonliving things in an area are the

• inference

• environment

• adaptations

• criteria