Across
- 5. wetlands without trees
- 9. shallow wetlands flooded regularly with sea water
- 11. area exposed by low tides
- 12. free floating photosynthetic plants
- 14. shorelines
- 16. deepest layer
- 20. special variety of trees that grow in salt water
- 22. storage deposits
- 24. water is much colder in this boundary
Down
- 1. whitening of corals
- 2. The path of water through our environment
- 3. Differing conditions from upper to lower layers
- 4. begins with the intake of carbon dioxide
- 6. occupy less than 5% of land in the u.s
- 7. distinctive temperature transition zone
- 8. cover nearly 3/4 of the earths surface
- 10. Bay where a river empties into the sea
- 13. waterlogged soil that is peaty, fed by precipitation
- 15. flooded at high tide, but it off at low tide
- 17. Warm upper layer that is mixed by wind
- 18. Zones in the vertical water column of a water body
- 19. waterlogged soil that is peaty, fed by groundwater
- 21. dead organisms and other stuff from ocean floor
- 23. the bottom of a sea or lake