Across
- 5. communities that occur on the bottom
- 6. by the ocean
- 9. zones that comprise the water column
- 10. the path of water through our environment
- 11. act by the government that prevented the harmful dumping of toxic waste into water supplies
- 14. bays were rivers empty into the sea
- 16. wetlands without trees
- 19. scientists that study the ocean
- 20. depressions in a shoreline that are flooded at high tide but retain water
- 21. shallow ecosystems in which the land surface is submerged part of the year
- 22. similar to bogs, but are mainly fed by groundwater
- 24. temperature boundary
Down
- 1. when corals expel their algal partner and die
- 2. communities that live in water, but not the ocean
- 3. narrow islands that form parallel to a coastline
- 4. free-floating photosynthetic plants
- 7. areas of saturated ground
- 8. shallow wetlands flooded regularly with seawater
- 12. one of the best known marine ecosystems
- 13. variety of trees that grow in salt water
- 15. community of both animals and plants
- 17. slow disappearance of the shoreline
- 18. deep sea communities based on microbes that capture chemical energy
- 23. wetlands with trees