Spring Semester Vocab

2. The shape of the lit part of the Moon as seen from Earth
5. The path an object takes as it moves around another object
7. Something used to represent or explain an idea
9. everything (living and nonliving) that surrounds an organism
14. The process by which one population evolves into two or more different species
15. The process by which species adapt to environmental changes over a very long time
16. A more recent species that evolved from an ancestor population
18. A related organism from a previous generation
19. an instruction for making a protein molecule
20. Having died out completely and no longer alive anywhere on Earth
21. A body structure in two or more species that features the same parts
23. The line between the light and dark parts of the Moon
26. any difference in traits between individual organisms
27. the number of individuals with each trait in a population
28. a type of large molecule that performs important functions inside organisms
30. To shine light on something so it can be seen

1. a trait that makes it more likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment
3. Something that repeats over time
4. A part of an organism
6. a trait that makes it less likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment
8. a group of the same type of organism living in the same area
10. To receive genes from a parent
11. The Sun and everything that orbits it
12. the process by which the distribution of traits in a population changes over many generations
13. a group of organisms of the same kind (in one or more populations) that do not reproduce with organisms from any other group
17. a group of individuals born and living at about the same time
22. Evidence of life from the past, such as fossilized bones, footprints, or leaf prints
23. a specific characteristic of an individual organism
24. Sharing a common ancestor population
25. When something stays mostly the same over time
29. The relative size of objects