Ocean Zones

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Across
  1. 6. General term for the open ocean zone
  2. 8. Zone Another name for the surface zone
  3. 11. The vertical layering of water masses
  4. 13. Marine creatures that live on or near the sea floors
  5. 14. Ocean zone that begins where the ocean floor slopes steeply
  6. 18. Ocean zone above the continental slope
  7. 19. Region where sunlight does not reach
Down
  1. 1. Floating microscopic plants in the ocean
  2. 2. This zone lies beneath the epipelagic, with limited light
  3. 3. The shallowest ocean zone where sunlight fully penetrates
  4. 4. Organisms that drift with the currents
  5. 5. Tiny floating animals, food for many fish
  6. 7. Zone between bathypelagic and hadalpelagic
  7. 9. Deepest ocean zone, found in trenches
  8. 10. Zone called the “twilight zone”
  9. 12. Part of the ocean where light is just enough for photosynthesis
  10. 15. Deep ocean floor zone, often muddy
  11. 16. Creatures that swim freely and actively
  12. 17. Bottom layer of the ocean