Write the letter of the matching definition next to each term.
1. observe
A. Any of numerous small songbirds with short stout bills adapted for crushing seeds
2. survey
B. An act of traveling by water
3. fossil
C. A natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment
4. voyage
D. To make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose
5. observations
E. A particular course of action intended to achieve a result
6. galapagos
F. A group of islands in the Pacific off South America
7. finch
G. Someone regarded as certain to succeed
8. beak
H. French naturalist who proposed that evolution resulted from the inheritance of acquired
9. adapted
I. A detailed critical inspection
10. species
J. Someone whose style is out of fashion
11. questions
K. Horny projecting mouth of a bird
12. theory
L. The immediate descendants of a person
13. lamarck
M. An instance of ___ (plural)
14. giraffe
N. The responsive adjustment of a sense organ to varying conditions
15. evolution
O. An instance or single occasion for some event
16. process
P. An instance of change
17. time
Q. A process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage
18. natural
R. A living thing that has the ability to act or function independently
19. selection
S. A tentative insight into the natural world
20. variation
T. An assortment of things from which a choice can be made
21. survival
U. Tallest living quadruped
22. organism
V. Coins collectively (plural)
23. offspring
W. The act of making and recording a measurement (plural)
24. adaptation
X. To discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of