Across
- 3. areas of saturated ground (112)
- 6. first condition that affects the characteristics of an aquatic community (111)
- 7. free-floating photosynthetic plants (106)
- 9. where most of earths water is (106)
- 11. deep zone (107)
- 13. bays where rivers empty into the sea (109)
- 18. top zone (107)
- 20. low, narrow, sandy islands that form parallel to coastlines (110)
- 21. similar to bogs, but freshwater (112)
- 23. depressions in a rocky shoreline that are flooded at high tide (110)
- 24. crabs, shrimps, and mollusks (109)
- 27. America’s largest and most productive estuary (109)
Down
- 1. shallow wetlands that are flooded regularly (109)
- 2. when coral expel their algal partners then die (108)
- 4. Aggregations of minute colonial animals; best known marine ecosystem (108)
- 5. where photosynthesis can occur, 20m deep (107)
- 8. type of currents that circulate nutrients from the ocean floor back to the surface (107)
- 10. wooded wetlands (112)
- 12. path of water through our environment (65)
- 14. they provide nutrients and sediments; and have a muddy bottom that supports emergent plants (109)
- 15. type of tree that grows in salt water (108)
- 16. shallow ecosystems where the land is saturated for at least half the year (111)
- 17. name of the submarine that made explorations in 1977 (108)
- 19. sharp temperature boundary; aka mesolimnion (111)
- 22. some deep-ocean ecosystems rely on this (106)
- 25. middle zone (107)
- 26. wetlands without trees (112)