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