Adaptations and Survival Crossword Puzzle
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QUESTIONS LIST:
- adaptation : a heritable trait that helps and organism survive and reproduce in its habitat
- habitat : the environment in which an organism naturally lives
- variation : differences among organisms of the same species
- reproduce : creating the next generation of a species
- structural adaptation : a physical trait of an organism that helps it survive
- behavioral adaptation : a way an organism acts that helps if survive
- exaptation : a trait that helps with one challenge and ends up helping with a different challenge as well
- vestigial structure : a left-over structure that no longer serves a purpose in the organisms habitat
- environment : the place that an organism naturally lives; another term for habitat
- speciation : occurs when one species splits into two different species
- isolation : when one species is separated from other groups
- oceania : that area of the world that includes australia and new zealand
- marsupial : a type of mammal that carry their young in pouches
- coadaptation : when two organisms adapt together
- mimicry : when one organism resembles another
