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