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Benchmark Vocabulary
Unit 3 Benchmark
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |