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Snails and fish avoiding summer heat and desiccation enter:

ADiapause
BMigration
CAestivation
DHibernation
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: C. Aestivation
1. Both are ways of suspending activity. 2. Summer dormancy is aestivation. 3. Diapause is suspended development in zooplankton. _Source: syllabus Biology, Chapter 13, Organisms and Populations._
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