APES Water Crossword

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Across
  1. 5. communities that occur on the bottom
  2. 6. by the ocean
  3. 9. zones that comprise the water column
  4. 10. the path of water through our environment
  5. 11. act by the government that prevented the harmful dumping of toxic waste into water supplies
  6. 14. bays were rivers empty into the sea
  7. 16. wetlands without trees
  8. 19. scientists that study the ocean
  9. 20. depressions in a shoreline that are flooded at high tide but retain water
  10. 21. shallow ecosystems in which the land surface is submerged part of the year
  11. 22. similar to bogs, but are mainly fed by groundwater
  12. 24. temperature boundary
Down
  1. 1. when corals expel their algal partner and die
  2. 2. communities that live in water, but not the ocean
  3. 3. narrow islands that form parallel to a coastline
  4. 4. free-floating photosynthetic plants
  5. 7. areas of saturated ground
  6. 8. shallow wetlands flooded regularly with seawater
  7. 12. one of the best known marine ecosystems
  8. 13. variety of trees that grow in salt water
  9. 15. community of both animals and plants
  10. 17. slow disappearance of the shoreline
  11. 18. deep sea communities based on microbes that capture chemical energy
  12. 23. wetlands with trees