Natural Selection Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 5. a group of individuals born and living at about the same time
  2. 6. a specific characteristic of an individual organism
  3. 7. a group of the same type of organism living in the same area
  4. 9. a trait that makes it less likely than an individual will survive in its environment
  5. 11. a trait that makes it more likely than an individual will survive in its environment
  6. 13. A population's variation and distribution can __________ from generation to generation.
  7. 14. Future generations can only have the traits that already ____________.
Down
  1. 1. an idea about that will happen that is based on what you already know
  2. 2. the number of individuals with each trait in a population
  3. 3. a graph that shows a population's variation and distribution of traits
  4. 4. everything (living and nonliving) that surrounds an organism
  5. 8. any difference in traits between individual organisms
  6. 10. a result that happens because of an event
  7. 12. an event that leads to a result