APES Water Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. jets of hot water and minerals on the ocean floor
  2. 4. differing conditions from upper to lower layers
  3. 5. tiny, free-floating plants that support a marine food web
  4. 8. among the best known marine ecosystems
  5. 12. bacteria that don’t use oxygen
  6. 14. bays where rivers empty into the sea
  7. 18. occur on the bottom of the ocean
  8. 20. shallow wetlands flooded regularly with with seawater
  9. 21. corals expel their algal partnered and die
  10. 23. earths systems
  11. 25. shallow ecosystems where the land is submerged for part of the year
Down
  1. 1. 20 meter layer of the ocean where photosynthesis can happen
  2. 3. comprise the water column
  3. 6. the path of water through our environment
  4. 7. low, narrow, sandy, islandsThat form parrallel to a coastline
  5. 9. land-based
  6. 10. occur in coastal areas where excess nutrients stimulate bacterial growth that consumes almost all oxygen in the water
  7. 11. trees that grow in salt water
  8. 13. wooded wetlands
  9. 15. non living
  10. 16. drier areas around wetlands
  11. 17. depressions of rocky shoreline that are flooded at high tide but retain some water at low tide
  12. 18. living
  13. 19. differing conditions from upper and lower layers
  14. 22. environment that often occupies shallow, warm, and sandy areas by coral reefs
  15. 24. wetlands without trees