Ocean Enviroments

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Across
  1. 3. A property of matter representing the mass per unit volume.
  2. 5. The overall direction and movement of water as waves strike the shore at an angle
  3. 6. The periodic rising and falling of the water level of the ocean due to gravitational pulls of the moon and the sun
  4. 8. A wet, swampy area that is often flooded with water.
  5. 10. the portion of animals that are caught in a net and then thrown away as unwanted.
  6. 14. A tide of large range occurring during the new and full moons, resulting in an extra-high tidal bulge and extra-low tidal dip
  7. 17. Microscopic floating organisms that live in water and, like plants, convert sunlight and carbon dioxide into food.
  8. 18. the difference in height between high tide and low tide
  9. 19. the natural environment in which a living thing gets all that it needs to live;examples include a desert, a coral reef, and a freshwater lake.
  10. 20. A system that uses underwater sound waves to measure distance and locate objects
  11. 21. A built up limestone deposit formed by small ant-sized organ
  12. 22. An opening in the seafloor from which heated water rises and mixes with the ocean floor above.
  13. 23. The measure of the amount of dissolved salt contained in water.
  14. 24. A tide of small range occurring during the first and third quarter phases of the moon.
Down
  1. 1. the vertical movement of deep water up to the surface
  2. 2. the narrow ocean margin between the high-tide mark and the low-tide mark.
  3. 4. A large community of kelp, a type of seaweed that can attach to the ocean floor
  4. 7. The catching of fish at a faster rate than they can reproduce.
  5. 9. the movement of water from the surface to greater depths.
  6. 11. The flat or gently sloping land that lies submerged around the edges of a continent and that extends from the shoreline out to the continental slope.
  7. 12. a mass of moving ocean water
  8. 13. A narrow system of water that breaks through sand bars and drains rapidly back into deeper water.
  9. 15. A disturbance of wind patterns and ocean currents in the Pacific ocean that causes temporary climate changes in many parts of the world
  10. 16. A shoreline area where fresh water from a river mixes with salt water from the ocean