Science Vocabulary

A person who studies fossils

• primate
• paleontologist
• missing link
• hominin

The animal that was like an ape and human, but has not been discovered

• theory
• evolution
• primate
• missing link

A person who someone is descended from

• hominin
• ancestor
• bipedal
• primate

How organisms change across generations

• adapt
• bipedal
• evolution
• extinct

a form of terrestrial locomotion where an organism moves

• bipedal
• paleontologist 
• missing link
• extinct

being able to live in different environments 

• theory
• primate
• ancestor
• adapt

a species that no longer exists

• hominin
• extinct
• bipedal
• evolution

a thought that is supported by evidence

• theory
• adapt
• primate
• guess

a group of mammals

• bipedal
• evolution
• primates
• adapt

a family of two-footed primate animals

• primate
• bipedal
• adapt
• hominin