4th Grade Unit 2 Vocabulary Review

all the living and nonliving things in an area

• home

• area

• environment

• adaptation

something scientists make to answer questions about the real world

• mobile

• example

• feature

• model

what something can do

• function

• feature

• structure

• sense

responding to small amounts of information

• sensitive

• answering

• testing

• sensory

to use any of the five senses to gather information about something

• observe

• structure

• model

• function

 information that supports an answer to a question

• process

• evidence

• sense

• variable

the ability to see

• reflect

• process

• vision

• function

how an animal gets information from its environment

• prey

• reflect

• survive

• sense

an attempt to find out about something

• environment

• investigation

• survive

• function

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

• structure

• function

• sense

• variable