Water Crossword
Across
- 2. Not using oxygen
- 3. Areas of saturated ground which is usually composed of peat
- 7. Wooded wetlands, wetlands with trees
- 9. Single-celled protists
- 12. Low, narrow islands that form parallel to a coastline
- 14. The sunlit layer of the ocean where photosynthesis can occur
- 16. Similar to bogs, but fed by groundwater instead of precipitation
- 17. A special variety of trees that grow in salt water
- 18. This cycle describes the path of water through the environment
- 19. A group that includes crabs and shrimps
- 20. The deepest zone in an ocean
- 21. A sharp temperate boundary in water
- 22. The bottom of a body of water
- 23. Name of the submarine that discovered deep-sea thermal vents in 1977
Down
- 1. Dead marine organisms sinking toward the ocean floor
- 4. Key producers in marine ecosystems
- 5. A body that contains large amounts of water
- 6. Corals expel algae and die in this process
- 8. Another name for the thermocline
- 10. Bays where rivers empty into the sea
- 11. This ecosystem occupies less than 5% of US lands but is essential for biodiversity
- 13. Wetlands without trees
- 15. Moderately salty
- 21. A depression in a rocky shoreline that floods at high tide and retains water at low tide