Marine Vocabulary
Across
- 3. Usually microscopic plants and animals that float or drift
- 6. matter.
- 8. Animals that have backbones. Fish, sea mammals, and humans
- 11. Parasites feed on living animals (or plants) and usually
- 13. To escape or get away.
- 16. Grazers feed on attached sea weeds.
- 18. Numerous small, water-filled fleshy tubes used by sea stars
- 19. not cause the death of the host.
- 20. seeing.
- 21. The alternate rise and fall of the surface of the oceans and seas
Down
- 1. The shedding of the exoskeleton. Crabs must molt their shell in
- 2. These animals actively pass water through some type of filtering
- 4. The physical place where an organism lives.
- 5. There scavengers and recyclers feed on decaying plant and
- 7. the sea or freshwater. They are the base of most marine food chains.
- 9. by the attraction of the moon and sun.
- 10. to grow.
- 12. Animals that are eaten by other animals.
- 14. other echinoderms for locomotion, feeding, breathing and, in some
- 15. that allows the water to pass through the filter.
- 17. vertebrate animals.