Across
- 3. Sediments formed from water
- 4. The element cycle that starts with photosynthesis
- 8. The ________ grain sizes are carried the farthest by water
- 11. Chesapeake Bay is sinking due to this geological process
- 12. Zooplankton that spend all of their lives in the plankton
- 13. Rock weathering makes available more of this element important in ATP
- 17. One high tide and one low tide each day
- 20. High river flow, weaker tides, ocean flow moves along the bottom
- 22. Two high tides and two low tides each day of equal magnitude
- 25. Bacteria “fix” this element in the first step of its cycle
- 26. The type of estuary formed by barrier islands creating a lagoon
- 27. The second smallest grain size
- 30. The distance over which wind or swell can move unimpeded
- 32. The type of tides that occur when the sun and moon are perpendicular to each other
- 33. Bacteria, archaea, viruses, fungi, and protists
- 34. The distance from crest to trough of a wave
- 36. A mostly enclosed body of water where fresh water and salt water mix
- 38. The moon orbits the Earth and moves each day, which means the timing of the tides is about 50 minutes _______ each day
- 40. Photosynthesizers like diatoms and dinoflagellates
- 45. Chesapeake Bay is this type of estuary (based on its origin)
- 46. CO32-
- 50. The type of coast where you’d likely see cliffs
- 51. Sediments formed from living things
- 52. Organisms that can’t swim against a current
Down
- 1. The type of coast where you’d see barrier islands
- 2. The time it takes for one wavelength to pass a point
- 5. Originating from outside the system
- 6. A daily pattern of swimming where plankton swim up at night and down during the day
- 7. The bottom of a wave
- 9. Hydrogen bonding in water means it sticks together through ________
- 10. Larvae that eat in the plankton
- 14. The creation of layers in the water column based on physical characteristics like salinity
- 15. The total quantity of dissolved inorganic solids in the water
- 16. The distance between the same points on successive waves
- 18. Extremely low flow and high evaporation, causing ocean water to flow in at the surface
- 19. Lower river flow, stronger tides, and water is mixed along the estuary
- 21. Species that can live in a wide range of salinities
- 23. The top of a wave
- 24. Where two water masses with different properties meet and struggle to mix
- 28. The type of tides that occur when the sun, moon, and Earth are aligned
- 29. Small bits of organic matter that are suspended in water buy caught by a filter
- 30. A tidal current when the tide is moving from low to high
- 31. Sediments formed from outer space
- 35. Zooplankton that spend part of their lives in the plankton
- 37. Up in the water column
- 39. The measure of the ability of a solution to neutralize acid
- 41. High river flow and the bottom is stagnant due to a glacial sill at the mouth
- 42. Evapotranspiration moves this molecule back into the atmosphere
- 43. Low dissolved oxygen
- 44. The __________ the number is on the pH scale, the more acidic it is
- 47. Sediments formed from rocks and minerals
- 48. On the bottom (on the seafloor)
- 49. Molecules from living or decaying organisms that can pass through a filter