Unit 3 Ch. 2-4 Environments and Survival

Something new made to solve a problem.

• design

• adaptive

• non-adaptive

• car

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The way something is shaped or what it is made of.

• function

• structure

• design

• trait

What something can do.

• run

• walk

• structure

• function

A synonym for variation.

• sameness

• changes

• differences

• pitch

Things that engineers test to know if their design successfully solves a problem.

• experiment

• data

• investigation

• criteria

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Making it easier for an organism to meet its needs to survive.

• adaptive traits

• non-adaptive traits

• structure

• function

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Making it harder for an organism to meet its needs to survive.

• adaptive traits

• non-adaptive traits

• structure

• function

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Getting engineering ideas from organism's traits.

• chemistry

• geography

• biology

• biomimicry

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