Marine Science Intro/Science Skills/Ecosystems

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Across
  1. 4. Marine Science research area that would study kelp and dolphins.
  2. 5. An important example of biological succession in the ocean. Whale ________
  3. 7. Your Marine Science teacher's name
  4. 8. Home of country music and the most populated city in the path of totality.
  5. 9. The least populated state that will be in the path of totality
  6. 11. DESCRIBES a scientific event. Often accompanied by mathematical formulas.
  7. 14. Variable that you intentionally manipulate
  8. 15. All of the living and non-living things interacting in a specific geographic area.
  9. 17. A non-living thing that affects an ecosystem.
  10. 18. The seafloor or bottom of the ocean is in the __________ zone
  11. 21. The stable star that Earth orbits.
Down
  1. 1. Marine Science research area concerned with land, rocks, and seafloor
  2. 2. Marine Science research area that studies water temperatures, hurricanes, and climate change.
  3. 3. Marine Science research area that studies increasing acidity in the water itself.
  4. 6. Variable that you measure
  5. 10. An individual life form
  6. 12. Protected marine waters are National Marine _____________
  7. 13. Including today, the number of days you've gone to school this year.
  8. 16. Needed for all life to exist
  9. 18. A living thing that affects an ecosystem
  10. 19. EXPLAINS a scientific event. Often a hypothesis that has been accepted many times.
  11. 20. The number of oceans on Earth (if you think about it)