Amplify Science U3 Chapter 2 Vocabulary

all the living and nonliving things in an area

• population

• survive

• environment

• trait

a group of the same type of organism living in the same area

• variation

• adaptive

• function

• population

to stay alive

• survive

• reproduce

• design

• biomimicry

something that can be observed about an organism, such as color or size

• organism

• trait

• engineer

• structure

differences

• structure

• evidence

• non-adaptive

• variation

making it easier for an organism to meet its needs in an environment

• adaptive

• non-adaptive

• design

• structure

what something can do

• inference

• evidence

• engineer

• function

something new made to solve a problem

• design

• biomimicry

• structure

• reproduce

something you figure out based on observations and what you already know

• organism

• inference

• trait

• environment

the way something is shaped or what it is made out of that makes it good for a specific function

• variation

• evidence

• structure

• function