Natural Selection

5. any difference in traits between individual organisms
6. a group of individuals born and living t about the same time
7. a group of the same type of organisms living in the same area
8. a specific characteristic of an organism
10. an idea about what might happen that is based on what you already know
14. living things such as plants, animals, and bacteria
15. the process by which the distribution of traits in a population changes over many generations
17. a group of organisms of the same kind (in one or more populations) that do not reproduce with organisms from any other group

1. an organism produced as a result of reproduction
2. a trait that makes it less likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment
3. the number of individuals with each trait in a population
4. everything (living and nonliving)that surrounds an organism
9. a trait that makes it more likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment
11. an event or process that leads to a result or change
12. a graph that uses bars to show how characteristics or values are distributed within a group
13. a characteristic that all members of a species have
16. a result or change that happens because of an event or process
17. to stay alive