Natural Selection

2. an animal that is hunted or killed by another animal for food
7. a trait that makes it more likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment
10. an event or process that leads to a result or change
11. a random change to a gene that sometimes results in a new trait
12. an animal that hunts and kills other animals for food
13. any difference in traits between individual organisms
14. a specific characteristic of an individual organism
15. everything (living and nonliving) that surrounds an organism
16. an idea about what might happen that is based on what you already know
17. a characteristic that all members of a species have
19. living things, such as plants, animals, and bacteria
20. a group of organisms of the same kind (in one or more populations) that do not reproduce with organisms from any other group

1. a trait that makes it less likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment
3. a result or change that happens because of an event or process
4. the process by which the distribution of traits in a population changes over many generations
5. a way of hiding by looking the same as the background
6. the process in which two parents pass on their genes to create offspring
8. a group of the same type of organism living in the same area
9. to receive genes from a parent
18. the number of individuals with each trait in a population
19. an organism produced as a result of reproduction