Across
- 2. a high pressure system located over the Atlantic Ocean
- 5. a body of water where fresh and saltwater mix
- 6. Stenohaline to tolerate only a narrow range of salinity.
- 8. spend most of its life at sea and travel to freshwater to spawn
- 9. protective coloration of some animals which parts normally in shadow are light and those exposed to the sky are dark
- 10. organisms that are able to tolerate a wide range of salinities
- 11. maintain an internal environment which is isotonic to their external environment
- 13. sub-group of suspension feeding animals that feed by straining suspended matter and food particles from water
- 14. short lived environment
- 15. spend most of life at sea and travel to low salinity to spawn
- 17. able to tolerate only a small range of temperature.
- 18. a circular ocean current, with offshoot eddies
- 19. spend most of their life in freshwater and travel to the sea to spawn
Down
- 1. a smaller body of water that drains into in a larger body of water
- 3. a strong ocean current that brings warm water from the Gulf of Mexico into the Atlantic Ocean.
- 4. area of land that drains into one body of water
- 5. organism that is able to tolerate a wide range of temperatures
- 7. tightly regulate their body osmolarity
- 12. Billions of gametes are spewed into the surrounding environment of the ocean.
- 16. not a permanent resident; migratory