Across
- 2. beginning of a river
- 6. amount of salts dissolved in water
- 8. no sunlight penetrates, photosynthesis cannot occur
- 9. area between uppermost reach of high tide and lowest limit of low tide
- 10. uppermost layer of aquatic ecosystem, enough sunlight for photosynthesis
- 14. shallow near-shore portion of the photic zone
- 16. areas of land that are flooded with water at least part of the year
- 18. area near river that are flooded periodically
- 19. partly enclosed bodies of water, merging point for oceans and rivers
Down
- 1. a small river flowing into a larger one
- 3. surface water sinking
- 4. a cut-off meander
- 5. salinity is between 0.5 and 30 ppt
- 7. no rooted plants portion of the photic zone
- 11. wide, curvy paths formed by slow flowing water
- 12. are of land drained by a river and its tributaries
- 13. very bottom of a body of water
- 15. vertical flow of nutrient-rich water
- 17. place where rivers empty into larger bodies of water