Life's Adaptation Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 3. reversible and gradual change in the physical trait of an organism to be more suited in the changing conditions in the environment
  2. 5. is the range of the temperature of the surroundings wherein organisms are able to maintain or minimally change their metabolic rates.
  3. 6. freshwater organisms tend to have higher salinity than the surrounding water
  4. 8. a mechanism that allows the body to contradict the temperature stress in the environment
  5. 9. a similarity that is the result of common ancestry
  6. 11. the process by which random evolutionary changes are selected for by nature in a consistent, orderly, non-random way
  7. 12. maintenance of the internal environment at equilibrium despite the instabilities of the external environment
  8. 13. the process in which plants loses water through evaporation from their aerial parts
  9. 14. 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
  10. 16. measured by the genetic contribution of an organism to its future descendants
  11. 18. the act of moving from one to another in search of better conditions
  12. 19. state of animal dormancy during extremely hot conditions
  13. 20. animals that can regulate their own body temperature
Down
  1. 1. the label given to species of plants that are highly dependent on sunlight with only a few competition
  2. 2. animals that can self-regulate their body temperatures as well as the environment’s
  3. 4. animals that depend on their own body temperature with the environment
  4. 7. the process of morphological and physiological modification in relation to body size
  5. 10. an assortment of species on earth
  6. 15. state of dormancy that occurs in many insects wherein their life cycle temporarily stop until conditions improve
  7. 17. state of reduced body temperature and metabolic rate