Across
- 1. special area under a coastline where 100s of sea creatures and plants thrive in a community
- 7. extremely important
- 8. kind of sea plant eaten by many peoples of the world and food for sea life as well.
- 9. (noun) a wonder is something so splendid and nice that it leaves you speechless
- 10. the area of the earth where certain animals live
- 12. when a plant grows, it develops a root system that feeds the plant and anchors it in place
- 13. the arm of some creatures like octopuses are called tentacles and have suction cups
Down
- 2. at risk of dying off and disappearing from planet Earth
- 3. things that happen one right after another
- 4. body of live coral animal that lives within the exoskeletal shells
- 5. when coral dies, it turns very white and bleached looking
- 6. when something is so beautiful it takes your breath away
- 11. a kind of animal that has an exoskeleton and builds into structures over the dead bodies of other coral