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Unit 3 Chapter 1
Environments and Survival
| environment | all the living and non-living things in an area |
| survive | to stay alive |
| organism | a living thing, like a plant or animal |
| inference | something you figure out based on observations and what you already know |
| likely | good chance that it will happen |
| trait | something that can be observed about an organism, such as color or size |
| predator | an animal that hunts and eats other animals |
| function | what something can do |
| population | a group of the same kind of organism living in the same area |
| structure | the way something is shaped or what it is made of that makes it good for a specific function |
| variation | differences |
| adaptive | making it easier for an organism to meet its needs in an environment |