Chapter 3 Vocabulary: Staying Alive

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Across
  1. 1. A group of frogs that all live at the _____ pond is a population.
  2. 9. Remains or impressions of plants and animals preserved in a petrified form or as a mold or cast in rock.
  3. 10. A time when growth and physical activity of some plants temporarily stops.
  4. 11. A scientist who uses fossil evidence to make inferences about life and the environment from the past.
  5. 12. A physical adaptation that lets an animal blend into an environment so that it is almost impossible to see.
  6. 13. Physical characteristics and behaviors that allow plants and animals to satisfy life needs and respond to the environment.
Down
  1. 2. A population might move to a new place if its ______________ changes.
  2. 3. A long-distance journey from one place to another and then back again as seasons change.
  3. 4. Any living thing on the planet.
  4. 5. Adaptation that helps an organism to survive more easily in its habitat, such as traits like webbed feet or tusks.
  5. 6. A deep winter sleep that allows an animal's body to slow down so much that it can survive without eating.
  6. 7. Adaptations organisms use to respond to the environment that are learned from parents or other members of the same species
  7. 8. A group of organisms of the same kind living in the same place. For example, a school of fish, a herd of cattle, or a flock of geese are all examples.