Biomes

2. the hadopelagic zone extends into the ocean's deepest trench, the Mariana Trench, located in the western Pacific ocean basin
3. the southern kelp has a claw-like that attaches it to mussels, rocks and other hard surfaces
5. a transition zone between river environments and maritime environments
6. corals, sea stars (starfish), mussels and lobster
8. a cloth covering suspended over a bed
11. swamps, peatlands, sloughs, marshes, muskegs, bogs, fens, potholes, and mires
14. a level or rolling treeless plain that is characteristic of arctic and subarctic regions
17. a tropical or subtropical grassland
19. a living organism that shapes its environment
20. in Fairbanks, Alaska, the soil is frozen just some 30 to 40 centimeters below the surface
21. Large region characterized by a specific type of climate and certain types of plants and animal communities that live there.

1. such land having a very warm climate
4. nearshore is the part of a sea, lake, or river that is close to the shore. In coastal ecology.
7. a spawning site for threatened and endangered eels, as well as white marlin, porbeagle shark, and dolphinfish
9. cattails, sedges, papyrus and sawgrass
10. the bathypelagic zone, or lower open ocean
12. a tiny stream, but some are immense rivers
13. falling off or shed seasonally
15. To flood or submerge with or as with water.
16. trees keep their green leaves year-round
18. a non-living part of an ecosystem that shapes its environment