Evolution and Inheritance Vocabulary Anagram

Year 6 ScienceEvolution and Inheritance3 pages

About this worksheet

A three-page Year 6 vocabulary sheet on evolution and inheritance, with answers. Pupils unscramble twelve terms from hints with letter counts, such as I T T A R and C N T X T E O I N I. Seven hints ask pupils to keep one letter, and those letters make a mystery word for the goal of every organism. Three sentences on a polar bear, two fox cubs and palaeontologists then use the answers. A picture of an ammonite fossil closes the sheet. It follows the England National Curriculum.

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Curriculum objectives covered

Evolution and inheritance

“Identify how animals and plants are adapted to suit their environment in different ways and that adaptation may lead to evolution.”

ADAPTATION, HABITAT, SELECTION and EVOLUTION are in the table, and sentence 1 uses the polar bear's blubber as an adaptation.

Evolution and inheritance

“Recognise that living things have changed over time and that fossils provide information about living things that inhabited the Earth millions of years ago”

FOSSIL is word 2, and sentence 3 is about palaeontologists who study rock layers.

Evolution and inheritance

“Recognise that living things produce offspring of the same kind, but normally offspring vary and are not identical to their parents”

OFFSPRING, INHERIT and VARIATION are in the table, and sentence 2 uses two fox cubs from the same parents.

What's inside this worksheet

Evolution and Inheritance: Key Vocabulary

Twelve scrambled terms in a table, from S L O F S I to T P D A A A N O T I, each with a hint.

Mystery Word Challenge

Pupils rearrange the seven marked letters R, I, S, U, V, V and E.

Sentence Challenge

Three sentences to finish with adaptation, variation and fossil.

How teachers use it

Before natural selection

Use it early in the unit so pupils meet terms like mutation and selection before you teach natural selection.

Pairs race

Pairs race to solve the mystery word. They need all seven marked words right to get it.

Homework

Send the sheet home and ask pupils to write a new sentence for a word the Sentence Challenge does not use.

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