Bringing Back Oysters

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Across
  1. 4. An organism which provides homes for other creatures.
  2. 6. Filter any oxygen, algae, and particles that are in the water.
  3. 13. Waves that pick up and wash away sand and soil
  4. 17. Tiny and immature
  5. 18. Helps open and close the shell.
  6. 20. Sorts and transfers food from the gills to the digestive tract.
  7. 22. A community of organisms.
  8. 23. Adjustable tools used to measure the growth of the animals.
  9. 24. Pumps the oysters blood
  10. 25. Pull something up
Down
  1. 1. Far down underneath
  2. 2. An animal underwater which is considered to be a shelled delicacy.
  3. 3. Animals vital to their ecosystem.
  4. 5. Helps hold two halves of the oysters shell together.
  5. 7. Pumps water, filtering out anything bad in the water.
  6. 8. Harvesting too much of that certain thing.
  7. 9. Skin like texture that helps cover up the organs.
  8. 10. Rare and hard to find.
  9. 11. Loss Animals losing the environment they live in.
  10. 12. Hard outer covering that helps protect the animal.
  11. 14. Animals with soft bodies are protected with hard shells.
  12. 15. Surges Occur when rising water is being pushed onto land.
  13. 16. Expensive and fancy
  14. 19. Digests algae that is caught in the gills.
  15. 21. Trash and bacteria in the water.