Evolutionary Terms

3. Adaptation When an animal adapts to the environment by the way its body is built.
4. When an animal hides/disguises itself from a predator.
7. Reproduction The process of nature when only the organisms who are best suited to their environment survive and reproduce.
12. When an organism becomes better suited to the environment during a process of change.
13. The gradual development of a species over time.
15. An organisms ability to survive and reproduce in its environment.

1. Adaptation A change in an organism due to changes in its conditions.
2. A change in the process of nature or an individual.
5. Selection When humans breed other animals and plants for certain traits.
6. The periodic movement of animals from one place to another.
8. Selection When organisms adapt to the environment and reproduce.
9. Drift A change in the frequency of in the genes of a population due to changes that happened during natural selection.
10. The external resemblance of an animal to another animal.
11. Structures Features of different species that are similar in function but not in structure.
14. Structures A structure or organ that within time has either diminished or stopped being useful.