Across
- 1. What is happening to fish size?
- 3. How a invasive aquatic species often transported to new environments?
- 6. What type of eggs do amniotes produce?
- 8. Which group of dinosaurs did birds evolve from?
- 10. What type of coral reef is effected most by hurricanes?
- 12. What happens to coral after around a month in warmer water?
- 14. 2 pairs of temporal openings are consistent among most of which group?
- 15. Birds are a part of which group, descended from the earliest tetrapods?
- 17. What is the earliest group of vertebrates to be widely successful predators?
- 20. What fossils show the transition from reptilian dinosaurs to birds?
- 22. What is the relative of living frogs with small tusks at the end of its snout?
- 23. Which fish are the most diverse group of vertebrates alive today?
- 24. What bones do turtle's shells rest on?
- 27. Where did modern coral reef science begin?
- 28. What is the largest known species of turtle to ever live?
Down
- 2. Which organisms have a lifecycle between aquatic and terrestrial?
- 4. What is the term for organisms with four limbs?
- 5. What can invasive mussels prevent native mussels from doing when they attach?
- 7. Around 10,000 species of this animal exist, and are technically dinosaurs
- 9. What is the earliest group of vertebrates to evolve powered flight?
- 11. What element is used up by bacteria during decomposition?
- 13. Fossils show many dinosaurs may have had what feature, also had by birds?
- 16. What type of scans can be used to view fossils without cutting into them?
- 18. In what type of animal did limbs originate?
- 19. Large ______ are a sign of a healthy ecosystem
- 21. What land animal plays a part in coral reef health?
- 25. whale What is the largest living vertebrate?
- 26. How are native mussels being found on the floor of the canal?
- 27. What structure provides anchorage for muscles and teeth?
- 29. Costal zones containing runoff that spikes phytoplankton and algae growth?