Marine Biology Crossword

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Across
  1. 4. Red and blue photosynthetic pigments as well as chlorophyll
  2. 6. Gas-filled floats/air-bladders that lift the blades towards the sunlight at the surface
  3. 7. The idea that surface water moved by wind does not flow parallel but rather deflects to the right in the Northern Hemisphere and to the left in the Southern Hemisphere.
  4. 12. Marine plant species that are quite large
  5. 13. One of three wind belts in the Northern Hemisphere (high latitudes)
  6. 15. the supercontinent that consisted of all the present land masses prior to their breakup and subsequent drift to their present positions
  7. 17. "What occurs when North-South flowing boundary currents meet East-West currents to produce large, circulating currents called gyres"
  8. 18. Absorbed most of the harmful radiation and made it possible for life on earth to survive on land.
Down
  1. 1. "Animal-like plankton that grow up to become nekton (large, actively-swimminng marine animals)"
  2. 2. Green photosynthetic pigment in plants
  3. 3. The ability to glow in the dark; production of visible light by living organisms
  4. 5. The study of classification
  5. 6. Single celled microscopic organisms that aer found scattered throughout the photic zone
  6. 8. a plant body without true stems or roots or leaves or vascular system
  7. 9. lash-like appendages used for locomotion
  8. 10. the process that carries nutrient-rich subsurface water upward to the photic zone
  9. 11. hairlike projections from the surface of a cell
  10. 14. "Yellow, brownish, or green photosynthetic pigment in plants"
  11. 16. Not equal if cut in half