Oceanography
Across
- 4. Sound Navigation and Ranging
- 7. part of oceanography that deals with nonliving
- 12. highest point on a wave
- 13. ocean floor nearest the shoreline
- 16. where continental slope levels out; sediments here
- 19. long mountain chains that form at divergent boundaries
- 20. plankton that make their own food
- 21. part of oceanography that deals with living
- 23. current caused mostly by Earth's rotation
- 24. is more dense than freshwater
Down
- 1. a continuous flow of water in the ocean
- 2. flat ocean floor
- 3. deepest part of the ocean
- 5. ocean that covers the entire bottom of the globe
- 6. microscopic life at ocean's surface
- 7. largest ocean; lies west of the United States
- 8. word that means "must eat other organisms"
- 9. free swimmers; sharks and fish
- 10. distance from one point on a wave to another
- 11. ocean that is frozen much of the year
- 14. makes up 3% of ocean
- 15. saltiness of ocean water
- 17. energy moving through the water
- 18. study of the physical and biological ocean
- 22. bottom dwellers; crabs and seastars