Spring Semester Vocab

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Across
  1. 2. The shape of the lit part of the Moon as seen from Earth
  2. 5. The path an object takes as it moves around another object
  3. 7. Something used to represent or explain an idea
  4. 9. everything (living and nonliving) that surrounds an organism
  5. 14. The process by which one population evolves into two or more different species
  6. 15. The process by which species adapt to environmental changes over a very long time
  7. 16. A more recent species that evolved from an ancestor population
  8. 18. A related organism from a previous generation
  9. 19. an instruction for making a protein molecule
  10. 20. Having died out completely and no longer alive anywhere on Earth
  11. 21. A body structure in two or more species that features the same parts
  12. 23. The line between the light and dark parts of the Moon
  13. 26. any difference in traits between individual organisms
  14. 27. the number of individuals with each trait in a population
  15. 28. a type of large molecule that performs important functions inside organisms
  16. 30. To shine light on something so it can be seen
Down
  1. 1. a trait that makes it more likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment
  2. 3. Something that repeats over time
  3. 4. A part of an organism
  4. 6. a trait that makes it less likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment
  5. 8. a group of the same type of organism living in the same area
  6. 10. To receive genes from a parent
  7. 11. The Sun and everything that orbits it
  8. 12. the process by which the distribution of traits in a population changes over many generations
  9. 13. a group of organisms of the same kind (in one or more populations) that do not reproduce with organisms from any other group
  10. 17. a group of individuals born and living at about the same time
  11. 22. Evidence of life from the past, such as fossilized bones, footprints, or leaf prints
  12. 23. a specific characteristic of an individual organism
  13. 24. Sharing a common ancestor population
  14. 25. When something stays mostly the same over time
  15. 29. The relative size of objects