Water crossword

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Across
  1. 4. path of water through our water
  2. 10. shallow, regularly flooded, wetlands
  3. 11. algae or tiny photosynthetic plants
  4. 12. shallow ecosystems with saturated or submerged land surfaces
  5. 13. deep-sea exploration submarine in 1977
  6. 14. long, narrow, sandy islands parallel to a coastline
  7. 17. best-known marine ecosystems
  8. 18. special trees that grow in water
  9. 21. “sea” in Greek
  10. 22. water can reside in these for centuries
  11. 24. responsible for metabolic processes within cells
  12. 25. layer below the epilimnion
Down
  1. 1. sharp temperature boundary between lake layers
  2. 2. hurricane that caused over $200 billion in property damage
  3. 3. depressions in rocky shoreline
  4. 5. its storage costs $2-3 billion a year in the U.S.
  5. 6. wetlands without trees
  6. 7. bays where rivers empty into the sea
  7. 8. communities occur on the bottom
  8. 9. vertical _____ is a key feature of aquatic systems
  9. 15. what height the water in wetland and swamps is usually at
  10. 16. 2006 conference on oceans, coasts, and islands
  11. 19. what communities wetlands may gradually convert to
  12. 20. have a warmer upper layer that is mixed by wind and warmed by the sun
  13. 23. phrase for the dead organisms on the ocean floor