Adaptations - Unit 3 Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. all of the rock that makes up Earth
  2. 3. therapy a way of treating diseases by transferring normal, functional genes into cells to take the place of defective genes
  3. 5. warming the long-term increase in the average surface temperature of Earth
  4. 6. the parts of Earth in which organisms are able to live, along with all of Earth’s living things
  5. 8. species a species that is in serious danger of becoming extinct
  6. 14. consumption the total amount of a certain resource consumed by all the people in a certain area on Earth
  7. 15. change a long-term change in climate patterns on Earth, typically including changes in average global temperatures, in precipitation, and in the frequency of severe weather
  8. 16. modified organism an organism that has had its genetic material, or DNA, modified through genetic engineering
Down
  1. 1. selection the process through which humans select the organisms that reproduce so that they can obtain offspring with similar desirable traits
  2. 2. engineering the processes and techniques used to modify the genes of living things in order to change their traits
  3. 4. all the water on Earth, including that found in oceans, lakes, rivers, groundwater, glaciers, ice caps, and clouds
  4. 7. capita consumption the average amount of a certain resource consumed by a single person in a certain area on Earth
  5. 9. describes an animal or plant that has become adapted, through generations of breeding, to live in close association with humans
  6. 10. insemination a method of animal breeding in which semen, including sperm, the male sex cells, is collected from a male and directly inserted into the body of a female
  7. 11. pollination the purposeful transfer of pollen from one plant to another in order to breed specific plants together
  8. 12. husbandry the breeding and care of farm animals
  9. 13. The layer of gases around the Earth.