Charles Darwin
Name: ______________________ Date: ____________
Write the missing letters on the lines to finish each word.
1.
o
s
e
To discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of
2.
u
e
y
A detailed critical inspection
3.
f
s
l
Someone whose style is out of fashion
4.
o
a
g
An act of traveling by water
5.
b
e
a
i
o
s
The act of making and recording a measurement (plural)
6.
g
a
a
s
A group of islands in the Pacific off South America
7.
i
c
Any of numerous small songbirds with short stout bills adapted for crushing seeds
8.
b
e
Horny projecting mouth of a bird
9.
a
p
t
To make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose
10.
s
e
e
Coins collectively (plural)
11.
s
t
i
s
An instance of ___ (plural)
12.
h
o
r
A tentative insight into the natural world
13.
l
m
r
French naturalist who proposed that evolution resulted from the inheritance of acquired
14.
g
f
e
Tallest living quadruped
15.
e
o
i
o
A process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage
16.
p
o
e
A particular course of action intended to achieve a result
17.
t
m
An instance or single occasion for some event
18.
t
u
r
Someone regarded as certain to succeed
19.
l
e
c
i
An assortment of things from which a choice can be made
20.
a
t
i
n
An instance of change
21.
r
v
v
a
A natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment
22.
r
g
n
m
A living thing that has the ability to act or function independently
23.
f
i
n
g
The immediate descendants of a person
24.
a
d
p
a
o
The responsive adjustment of a sense organ to varying conditions