Life's Adaptation Crossword Puzzle

4. freshwater organisms tend to have higher salinity than the surrounding water
5. a similarity that is the result of common ancestry
6. the act of moving from one to another in search of better conditions
7. maintenance of the internal environment at equilibrium despite the instabilities of the external environment
9. zone, is the range of the temperature of the surroundings wherein organisms are able to maintain or minimally change their metabolic rates.
11. heat exchange, a mechanism that allows the body to contradict the temperature stress in the environment
15. the process in which plants loses water through evaporation from their aerial parts
16. animals that can self-regulate their body temperatures as well as the environment’s
17. the label given to species of plants that are highly dependent on sunlight with only a few competition
18. state of reduced body temperature and metabolic rate
19. state of dormancy that occurs in many insects wherein their life cycle temporarily stop until conditions improve

1. an assortment of species on earth
2. animals that depend on their own body temperature with the environment
3. the label given to species of plants that manage to thrive with little sunlight or under the shade of taller plants and with natural competition between under plant species
8. the process of morphological and physiological modification in relation to body size
10. state of animal dormancy during extremely hot conditions
12. selection, the process by which random evolutionary changes are selected for by nature in a consistent, orderly, non-random way
13. animals that can regulate their own body temperature
14. measured by the genetic contribution of an organism to its future descendants
20. reversible and gradual change in the physical trait of an organism to be more suited in the changing conditions in the environment