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