Across
- 4. a river in eastern part of the United States where a dead zone has been reversed
- 6. this hurricane worsened the hypoxic conditions in the Gulf of Mexico
- 8. these two states also have dead zones on their coastlines
- 10. a major cause of dead zones, also an essential component of bones
- 11. location of the most infamous dead zone in the United States
- 12. the Gulf of Mexico dead zone decimated this industry
Down
- 1. what a water-based ecosystem does when two many nutrients are added to it
- 2. a bay in the western part of the United states where a dead zone has been reversed
- 3. a dead zone was first detected here in the 1970s
- 5. a primary cause of dead zones, also a component of protein
- 7. a dead zone in this location cleared up after the cost of chemical fertilizer increased
- 8. spilling this will also worsen hypoxic conditions in water
- 9. lacking oxygen
