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