Life's Adaptation Crossword Puzzle

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