Organisms and Survival Vocabulary

structure

• a building that you create that is taller than a skyscraper

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

• a living thing, such as a plant or an animal

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

Which one of these is NOT a predator of the sea otter?

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biomimicry

• all of the living and nonliving things in an area

• getting engineering ideas from organisms' traits

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

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

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adaptive

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

• to stay alive

• what something can do

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

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non-adaptive

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

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

• making it harder for an organism to meet its needs in an environment

• an animal that hunts and eats other animals

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environment

• what something can do

• all the living and nonliving things in an area

• the things that engineers think about and test in order to know how well something solves a problem

• something new made to solve a problem

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survive

• all of the living things and non-living things in an area

• to stay alive

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

• differences

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Which of these are examples of organisms? (click all that apply)

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