Aquatic Biomes - Saltwater

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Across
  1. 1. This is the deepest zone of the ocean
  2. 4. Corals live in ___, warm water
  3. 7. The zone best known to humans, where people cana easily go scuba diving and where many marine animals are found
  4. 8. the amount of dissolved salts in water
  5. 14. The ___ of the seawater provides rainwater for the land
  6. 17. The open ocean
  7. 19. Animals living in this zone rely on detritus
  8. 20. waste or debris of any kind
Down
  1. 2. Animals that live in this zone include basket stars and sea pigs
  2. 3. The most common mollusk in the bathypelagic zone, it turns itself inside out
  3. 5. light produced by animals in the mesopelagic zone
  4. 6. When corals die, what part remains?
  5. 9. another name for an estuary
  6. 10. This zone is also known as the twilight zone
  7. 11. Almost every river on earth eventually flows into a(n) ___
  8. 12. supplies much of the world's oxygen and takes in a huge amount of atmospheric carbon dioxide
  9. 13. A mixture of salt and freshwater
  10. 15. A highly intelligent invertabrate capable of living in the depths of the hadal zone
  11. 16. one of the most diverse ecosystems in the world; formed from calcium carbonate skeletons
  12. 18. The area where a river meets and ocean and contains a mixture of freshwater and saltwater