Bringing Back Oysters
Across
- 3. Holds the two halves of the oyster’s shell together
- 5. Opens and closes the shell
- 7. Digests algae caught in the gills
- 8. organisms interacting with their nonliving environment
- 10. some people remove this from the water, but it remains a problem. “Sometimes the oysters die,” says Caden Koffi.
- 13. Their nonliving environment and rocks
- 15. The reefs help reduce this by blocking waves that can wash away sand and soil.
- 19. oyster reefs have disappeared which puts them at harm
- 20. Filter oxygen, algae, and particles from the water
- 22. They have shells smaller than the period in the ends of sentences.
- 23. protect coastlines.
- 24. Hanging or raised
Down
- 1. pump water through their bodies, filtering out algae and bacteria to eat
- 2. Sorts and transfers food from the gills to the digestive tract
- 4. occur when rising water is pushed onto land which causes floods
- 6. Skin-like covering that protects the oyster’s organs
- 7. hoisting up something
- 9. measure the growth of the mollusks
- 11. live in shallow waters around the world
- 12. habitat loss decimated the oyster population
- 14. 85 percent of the world’s oyster reefs have disappeared
- 16. soft bodies are protected inside closed shells.
- 17. Pumps the oyster’s blood
- 18. Nowadays oysters are considered a this
- 21. protects the stuff inside of it