Evolution Crossword

4. The process by which one population evolves into two or more different species
7. When something stays mostly the same over time
8. The process by which the distribution of traits in a population changes over many generations
10. A related organism from a previous generation
12. The process by which species adapt to environmental changes over a very long time
13. A more recent species that evolved from an ancestor population
14. A group of individuals born and living at about the same time
15. Sharing a common ancestor population
16. A part of an organism

1. A trait that makes it more likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment
2. Evidence of life from the past, such as fossilized bones, footprints, or leaf prints
3. A group of the same type of organism living in the same area
5. A body structure in two or more species that features the same parts
6. Having died out completely and no longer alive anywhere on Earth
9. Everything (living and nonliving) that surrounds an organism
11. To receive genes from a parent