Oceans and Seas

4. One who investigates the animal and plant life in all the ocean environment
8. Studies the influence of the oceans on weather and climate
10. The earth began as a water planet; God created a supercontinent on the third day
12. The level of the sea's surface at a particular place and time; changes with rising and falling tides
14. Examines the distributions of various elements and compounds in the oceans and the ways that the chemicals affect the processes of the ocean
15. Adj. Anything that has to do with the ocean

1. Used to measure the sea level
2. A strip of land that separates the coastal region from the ocean
3. Arctic, Atlantic, Indian, Pacific, and Southern Oceans
5. An ever changing place that extends underwater beyond the shore; includes the shoreline, berm, beach face, and a longshore sandbar
6. Retained its water from the nebular cloud and slowly moved to the surface through volcanic activity; icy bodies ins pace deposited water on Earth during frequent collisions not long after the earth formed
7. The zero height that cartographers, mariners, and aircraft pilots use to measure elevation, depth, and altitude
9. Covers 71% of the earth's surface and holds 91% of all the water on the planet
11. Large section of ocean most surrounded by land or islands
13. Marine scientist/engineers from from almost every field who work to better understand the ocean