(ǝ dapt): To change so as to fit a new or specific use or situation.

(am fi bē ǝn): Any of a class (Amphibia) of cold-blooded vertebrates (such as frogs, toads, or salamanders) that have many characteristics that place them between fish and reptiles and having gilled aquatic larvae and air-breathing adults.

(klī mǝt): The average weather conditions of a particular place or region over a period of years.

(jē ə gra fik rānj): The region throughout which a kind of organism or ecological community naturally lives or occurs.

(ha bә tat): The place or environment where a plant or animal naturally or normally lives and grows.

(ma mǝl): Any of a class of warm-blooded vertebrates that include human beings and all other animals that nourish their young with milk produced by mammary glands and have the skin usually more or less covered with hair.

(pre də tər): An animal that preys on other animals for food.

(wī(e)l(d) līf): Living things and especially mammals, birds, and fishes that are neither human nor domesticated.