Life's Adaptation Crossword Puzzle

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