Across
- 8. total mass of organisms in a given area or volume.
- 12. feeder an animal that lives on or in the sediment of the sea floor.
- 13. spend part of life as plankton, other part not.
- 14. organism that eats plants and animals
- 16. feeder feeding by filtering out plankton or nutrients suspended in the water.
- 17. catching food and organic material from the water.
- 24. a yellowish brown dinoflagellate present in large numbers in the cytoplasm.
- 26. fish born in freshwater who spend most of their lives in saltwater but return to fresh water to spawn.
- 27. interaction between two different organisms living in close physical association.
- 30. pressure produced or associated with osmosis.
- 32. when the body/brain doesn't get enough oxygen.
Down
- 1. the process of maintaining salt and water balance.
- 2. an organism that decomposes organic material.
- 3. having live young that developed inside the body of the parent.
- 4. animals that eat meat.
- 5. the natural home environment of an animal, plant, or other organism.
- 6. migrating down rivers to the sea to spawn.
- 7. animals living on the surface of the seabed/riverbed.
- 9. waste or debris.
- 10. producing young by means of eggs
- 11. living organisms that are able to swim and move independently
- 15. the area above water level at low tide and underwater at high tide.
- 18. anything associated with or occurring on he bottom of a body of water.
- 19. a eukaryotic organism that is not an animal, plant, or fungus.
- 20. to feed on growing grasses and herbs.
- 21. a gas filled sac present in the body of many bony fishes, used to maintain and control buoyancy.
- 22. animal that feeds on plants.
- 23. corals, jellyfish, sea anemones.
- 25. protective coloration of some animals.
- 28. animals without a backbone
- 29. one of the 2 forms found in phylum cnidaria
- 31. the animals living in the sediments of the ocean floor or lake beds