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Across
  1. 7. Living
  2. 8. The general area or surroundings of a living thing
  3. 9. Any characteristic of an organism that enables it to live successfully in its environment
  4. 15. The largest life zone in the ocean, it covers the entire ocean of water above the sea bottom
  5. 19. The life zone beyond the subtidal zone, it is the region of water that lies above the continental shelf
  6. 20. A fibrous pad of tissue that anchors kelp and rockweed to a rocky surface
  7. 21. (photic means “light”) The part of the ocean that light penetrates
  8. 22. The part of the seafloor adjoining the continents
Down
  1. 1. The area above the intertidal zone, up to the sand dunes
  2. 2. Another name for ocean basin
  3. 3. The food-making process on which most living things depend
  4. 4. A region that contains characteristic organisms that interact with one another and with their environment
  5. 5. Below the low tide line, it includes an area of heavy wave impact and the sandy area beyond that
  6. 6. The life zone that extends beyond the neritic zone and includes most of the open ocean
  7. 8. The study of relationships among living things and their environment
  8. 10. This actually includes the entire ocean floor, from the shallow intertidal zone to the deep ocean basin
  9. 11. The study of relationships in the ocean biome
  10. 12. The deepest part of the ocean
  11. 13. (aphotic means “no light”) The vast area of the ocean which is dark
  12. 14. A long line of seaweed and debris deposited on the beach during high tide
  13. 16. The area between high tide and low tide
  14. 17. The living creatures in an ecosystem
  15. 18. Organisms that inhabit the benthic zone