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