Across
- 3. an animal that hunts and eats other animals
- 7. something you figure out based on observations and what you already know
- 8. to stay alive
- 13. a description of how something works or why something happens
- 17. making it harder for an organism to meet its needs in an environment
- 18. the way something is shaped or what it is made out of that makes it good for a specific function
- 19. getting engineering ideas from organism's' traits
- 20. a group of the same kind of organism living in the same area
Down
- 1. a living thing, such as a plant or an animal
- 2. the things that engineers think about and test in order to know how well something
- 4. something new made to solve a problem
- 5. what something can do
- 6. something that can be observed about an organism, such as color or size
- 9. all the living and nonliving things in an area
- 10. making it easier for an organism to meet its needs in an environment
- 11. a person who uses science knowledge to design something in order to solve a
- 12. a problem
- 14. to make offspring
- 15. differences
- 16. observations or measurements recorded in an investigation
