Natural Selection and Evolution

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Across
  1. 6. A well supported testable explanation of natural phenomena.
  2. 8. To take a long trip usually by boat.
  3. 9. A summation of the theory of natural evolutionary process that enable organisms best suited for their environment to survive.
  4. 11. Author of Principles of Geography.
  5. 13. Traits passed to offspring by their ancestors.
  6. 16. Captain of the M.M.S. Beagle,traveler to the Galapagos Islands and Theorist of Evolution.
  7. 18. When humans select variations they find useful.
  8. 20. A non-random process by which biological traits become more or less common in population as a primary function.
Down
  1. 1. Someone related to a person or group of people who lived in a earlier time.
  2. 2. A Second Theorist of Evolution, who Darwin looked up to.
  3. 3. A living thing made up of one or more cells and able to carry on the activities of life.
  4. 4. Theorist of Geological change.
  5. 5. Preserved remains of ancient organisms.
  6. 7. The State of being different, unlike others.
  7. 10. Small Islands of Ecuador.
  8. 12. 19th Century English Economist.
  9. 14. Of relating to biology or to life and living things.
  10. 15. A group of similar living things that are able to reproduce offspring.
  11. 17. Ship taken on a voyage around the world.
  12. 19. A change in species over time.