Environments and Survival Chapter 1

A specific characteristic of an individual organism.

( example: thick fur)

• trait

• individualism

• feature

• gene

Everything that surrounds an organism.

• adaptations

• environment

• mutation

• adaptive trait

If an environment changes, an animal has the ability to change their traits to adapt to their environment.

• true

• false

This is a group of the same kind of organisms living in the same area.

• organism

• environment

• population

• variation

A species could go extinct if...

• the environment changes and the species cannot adapt

• food becomes more plentiful

Differences in traits are called

• variations

• adaptations

• natural selection

• population

Observations or measurements recorded in an investigation are

• design

• inference

• data

• explanations

Getting engineering ideas from organisms' traits is called

• inferencing

• engineering

• copying

• biomimicry

To _________ is to stay alive.

• design

• prey

• survive

• infer

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something new made to solve a problem

• inference

• criteria

• design

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