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