Water - Kinzie Ford

12345678910111213141516171819202122232425
Across
  1. 4. heats thermal vents
  2. 6. An area of waterlogged soil that tends to be peaty; fed mainly by ground water
  3. 7. the type of organisms most marine communities depend on
  4. 10. what islands protect the shore from storms?
  5. 15. zone where emergent plants grow in the bottom sediment
  6. 16. type of tree that lives in shallow salt water
  7. 17. A bay or drowned valley where a river empties into the sea
  8. 19. what cycle provides all the freshwater available for biological life?
  9. 20. zones that comprise the water column in a body of water
  10. 22. Prominent oceanic features composed of hard, limy skeletons produced by coral animals (two words)
  11. 24. Ecosystems where rooted vegetation is surrounded by standing water during part of the year
  12. 25. what are tiny, free-floating photosynthetic plants?
Down
  1. 1. upper layer of a lake that is mixed by wind and warmed by the sun
  2. 2. this zone is the deepest layer of the ocean
  3. 3. A wetland with trees
  4. 5. this affects the amount of oxygen that can be absorbed in water
  5. 8. what contributes to the distribution of biological productivity?
  6. 9. dead organisms in the ocean that sink toward the ocean floor (two words)
  7. 11. what ecosystem is a drier area around wetlands?
  8. 12. a distinctive temperature transition zone that separates an upper layer that is mixed by the wind and a colder, deep layer
  9. 13. bottom of a sea or lake
  10. 14. Wetland without trees
  11. 18. An area of waterlogged soil that tends to be peaty; fed mainly by precipitation, some are acidic
  12. 21. Whitening of corals caused by expulsion of symbiotic algae
  13. 23. bacteria that doesn’t use oxygen