Structure/Functions & Traits/ Behaviors Vocabulary

A characteristic that helps animals blend in with the surrounding environment and increase their chances for survival.

• characteristic

• camouflage

• function

• structure

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

A feature that helps identify something.

• characteristic

• camouflage

• function

• structure

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

What something does.

• characteristic

• camouflage

• function

• structure

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-2

Part of an organisms body.

• characteristic

• camouflage

• structure

• function

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-2

NGSS.MS-LS1-3

the space, conditions, and all the living and nonliving things around an organism.

• Earth

• structure

• function

• environment

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

A single, self-contained, living thing.

• organism

• rock

• water

• soil

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NGSS.MS-LS1-1

An animal that is hunted as food.

• predator

• prey

• hunter

• pray

An organism that hunts and feeds on another organism

• predator

• pray

• hunter

• prey

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Any characteristic that helps a plant or animal survive.

• inherited

• adaptation

• offspring

• learned behavior

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Something passed down from parent to offspring.

• inherited

• adaptation

• offspring

• learned behavior

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS3-2