Water Crossword

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Across
  1. 4. comprise the Water column
  2. 5. In the middle of high tide and low tide
  3. 9. The path of water through our environment
  4. 10. Are special variety of trees that grow in salt water
  5. 14. The best-Known marine ecosystems
  6. 15. vary with depth, temperature, and salinity
  7. 18. Algeria or tiny, free-floating photosynthetic plants
  8. 20. low, narrow, sandy islands that form parallel to a coastline
  9. 21. Least light and oxygen gets here
  10. 23. Most light and oxygen gets here
  11. 24. Sharp temperature boundary
  12. 25. Elevated water temperatures causes this
Down
  1. 1. Bays where rivers empty into the sea, mixing fresh water with salt water
  2. 2. consists with crabs, filter-feeding organisms, strange phosphorescent fish, and other life forms
  3. 3. Shallow wetlands flooded regularly with seawater
  4. 6. Communities occur on the bottom
  5. 7. Wetlands without trees
  6. 8. shallow ecosystem in which the land surface is saturated at least part of the year
  7. 11. Known as littoral zones
  8. 12. America’s largest and most productive estuary
  9. 13. A key feature of aquatic ecosystem
  10. 16. Top of the Pelagic zone
  11. 17. Areas of saturated ground
  12. 19. Bottom of Pelagic zone
  13. 22. Depressions in a rocky shoreline that are flooded at high tide but some water at low tide