Evolution Vocabulary Puzzle

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Across
  1. 3. A scientist who specializes in the study of life forms that existed in previous geologic periods
  2. 8. A community of animals, plants, or humans among whose members interbreeding occurs
  3. 10. A period of time in history
  4. 12. the process by which different kinds of living organisms develop
  5. 13. Tending to be different or develop in different directions
  6. 14. to arrange geological events, and the rocks they leave behind, in a sequence
  7. 16. The hypothesis that evolution proceeds chiefly by the accumulation of gradual changes
Down
  1. 1. An unborn or unhatched offspring in the process of development
  2. 2. A specialized segment of the market for a particular kind of production or service
  3. 4. The process of adapting
  4. 5. The stock of different genes in an interbreeding population
  5. 6. History of life as documented by fossils
  6. 7. Relating to or denoting evolutionary convergence
  7. 9. A Length or portion of time
  8. 11. A state in which opposing forces or influences are balanced
  9. 15. A long and distinct period of history