Across
- 2. near a coast
- 5. a severe snowstorm with high winds and low visibility
- 8. a scientist who studies the ocean
- 13. a community of living organisms interacting with their non-living physical environment
- 14. scientist who study wildlife, from very small to very large
- 15. left without the means to move somewhere
- 17. a deep open crack, especially one in a glacier
- 18. a mass of ice and snow
Down
- 1. one-celled plants that bloom in the sea in spring and summer
- 3. the fat of sea mammals, especially whales and seals
- 4. far away from other places or people
- 6. a nesting area
- 7. a half of the earth, usually as divided into northing and southern halves by the equator, or into eastern and western halves by the prime meridian
- 9. one of the smallest animals on the earth
- 10. layer a gaseous shield that protects us from the sun's powerful rays
- 11. one of the seven continents located in the south polar region of the earth.
- 12. to crowd together or nestle closely
- 16. a large floating mass of ice detached from a glacier or ice sheet and carried out to sea