Ecology Vocabulary Practice #3

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Across
  1. 2. An organisms children/young
  2. 5. When an organism is awake and alert at night
  3. 7. An adaptation that is a structure or part of an organism
  4. 8. Seed dispersal method where an animal helps move/carry seeds away from the parent plant
  5. 9. A change in DNA that can lead to a variation
  6. 12. The scientist who is credited with the discovery of natural selection
  7. 13. The members of the same population that are different from one another
  8. 15. An adaptation that an organism has which based on how it acts
  9. 16. The change in the characteristics of a species over time through the process of natural selection
Down
  1. 1. Physical structures that remain from ancestors but are no longer used
  2. 3. The process by which organisms better adapted to their environment survive and produce offspring
  3. 4. Traces of organisms that lived in the past
  4. 6. A physical characteristic or behavior that allows an organism to live successfully in its environment
  5. 10. An organism's ability to blend into its environment
  6. 11. Seed dispersal method where seeds are blown/fly through the air from the parent plant to another location
  7. 14. Allows plants to access water stored deep underground.