Adaptations

getting engineering ideas from organisms' traits

• criteria

• biomimicry

• data

something new made to solve a problem

• inference

• criteria

• design

a description of how something works or why something happens

• explanation

• inference

• structure

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

• survive

• non-adaptive

• function

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

• structure

• function

• biomimicry

differences

• data

• inference

• variation

to make offspring

• animal population

• reproduce

• survive

a living thing, such as a plant or an animal

• predator

• trait

• organism

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

• animal population

• predator

• organism

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

• trait

• inference

• criteria