CHAPTER 8: Aquatic Biodiversity

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Across
  1. 3. composed of 2 hydrogen and 1 oxygen
  2. 4. zone interface between the land and water
  3. 6. tide the highest point of water
  4. 7. weakly swimming and free-floating organism
  5. 8. drainage basin
  6. 12. sea huge volume of saltwater
  7. 13. the deepest part of lakes where photosynthesis doesn’t occur
  8. 15. forms a large reef in sea
  9. 16. tide the lowest point of water level
  10. 19. Strongly swimming organism
  11. 20. excessive nutrients into the lake
  12. 22. open sunlight surface layer
  13. 24. Top layer of freshwater lakes
Down
  1. 1. bottom dweller
  2. 2. tree that acts as barrier in coastal area
  3. 5. high salinity water; other term for marine water
  4. 9. organism that breakdown organic compound
  5. 10. clouded by algal bloom
  6. 11. One of the main problem of our environment
  7. 14. variety
  8. 17. low salinity water level
  9. 18. zone shoreline between low tide and high tide
  10. 21. when river meets the sea
  11. 23. planet were we live
  12. 24. large natural bodies of standing low salinity water in earth’s surface