Marine Science Intro Unit Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. A small underwater craft
  2. 4. The process when rock is being broken up into pieces
  3. 6. submarine that traveled to the ocean floor
  4. 8. The layering of water in oceans
  5. 10. Co-invented SCIBA
  6. 14. Azoic theory was proposed by him
  7. 17. Air is forced through the water to release unwanted gases
  8. 18. The substance in which the solute dissolves
  9. 20. Matter that settles to the bottom of the ocean
  10. 22. slightly salty
  11. 24. Greek philosopher; described marine life close to shore
  12. 26. Molecules having uneven distribution of charges
  13. 27. English captain who was the first to use a chronometer
Down
  1. 1. A steep temperature gradient in a body of water
  2. 3. An empire that created the first sailing vessels
  3. 5. A large-scale pattern of water circulation that moves clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and counterclockwise in the Southern Hemisphere
  4. 7. self-contained underwater breathing apparatus
  5. 9. An attraction between molecules of different substances
  6. 10. A large stream of moving water that flows through the oceans
  7. 11. substance being dissolved
  8. 12. The use of sound waves to find objects underwater
  9. 13. The degree of compactness of a substance
  10. 15. English naturalist who explained atoll formations
  11. 16. Italian navigator who discovered the New World
  12. 19. First to circumnavigate the world
  13. 20. the amount of salt in water
  14. 21. A habitat in which the fresh water of a river meets the salt water of the ocean
  15. 23. Attraction between molecules of the same substance
  16. 25. Scandinavian peoples who were superior shipbuilders and discovered Vinland