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Benchmark Vocabulary
Unit 3 Benchmark
Term | Definition |
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adaptive | making it easier for an organism to meet its needs in an environment |
biomimicry | getting engineering ideas from organisms' traits |
criteria | the things that engineers think about and test in order to know how well something solves a problem |
data | observations or measurements recorded in an investigation |
environment | all the living and nonliving things in an area |
function | what something can do |
inference | 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 |
structure | the way something is shaped or what it is made out of that makes it good for a specific function |
variation | differences |