All the answers here are about evolution and variation. The number (in brackets) tells you how many letters the word has.
Across
- 3. When a species that is more adapted for the environment will be more likely to survive and breed. All by chance (7,9)
- 5. A group of living things that share common traits and can interbreed (7)
- 8. Where a living thing lives. Includes their climate and what else lives there (11)
- 9. Another word for trait (14)
- 12. The insect that varies between black or white - black in the cities, white in the forests (8,4)
- 13. First name Charles, the person who came up with the theory of evolution (6)
- 14. On The ______ Of Species, a book all about evolution (6)
- 15. When humans breed a living thing to benefit them. Think dogs! (13)
Down
- 1. When all of a species dies out (10)
- 2. The bird that Charles noticed was different on each of the Galapagos Islands (5)
- 4. The process of species all gradually changing over time (9)
- 6. When two groups of the same species vary too much and become two different species (10)
- 7. Survival of the _______, where the living things most suited to an environment survive (7)
- 10. _______ engineering, when humans modify the genes of a living thing to immediately change its traits (7)
- 11. When different living things will start to change because of a different environment (9)
