Water Crossword - Owen Kaiser

1. Ecosystems of several types in which rooted vegetation is surrounded by standing water during part of the year.
3. ecosystems that occur in freshwater.
5. A distinct change in temperature in water.
8. tress that live in shallow saltwater
9. The top zone of the ocean
11. The bottom of a sea or lake.
13. Rain, snow, sleet
16. the middle zone of the ocean
18. the process of turning a liquid into a gas.
20. Depressions in a rocky shoreline that are flooded at high tide but cut off from the ocean at low tide.
22. An area of waterlogged soil that tends to be peaty; fed mainly by precipitation and have low productivity, and some are acidic.
23. these islands protect the shore from storms.
24. energy from the sun

2. the deeper zone of the ocean
4. an ecosystem that is in the ocean.
6. This cycle provides all the freshwater available for biological life.
7. Whitening of corals caused by expulsion of symbiotic algae—often resulting from high water temperatures, pollution, or disease.
10. Zones in the vertical water column of a water body.
12. The deeper zone of the ocean.
14. the process of draining water from a surface of land.
15. Microscopic, free-floating, autotrophic organisms that function as producers in aquatic ecosystems.
17. An area of waterlogged soil that tends to be peaty; fed mainly by ground water; low in productivity.
19. a marsh that regularly floods with saltwater.
21. water movement through plants.
25. A River that flows into an ocean mixing fresh and saltwater.