Across
- 4. Marine plant species that are quite large
- 5. Absorbed most of the harmful radiation and made it possible for life on earth to survive on land.
- 8. Red and blue photosynthetic pigments as well as chlorophyll
- 10. the supercontinent that consisted of all the present land masses prior to their breakup and subsequent drift to their present positions
- 11. "Animal-like plankton that grow up to become nekton (large, actively-swimminng marine animals)"
- 13. Gas-filled floats/air-bladders that lift the blades towards the sunlight at the surface
- 14. effect, The idea that surface water moved by wind does not flow parallel but rather deflects to the right in the Northern Hemisphere and to the left in the Southern Hemisphere.
- 15. lash-like appendages used for locomotion
- 16. "What occurs when North-South flowing boundary currents meet East-West currents to produce large, circulating currents called gyres"
- 18. hairlike projections from the surface of a cell
Down
- 1. Not equal if cut in half
- 2. the process that carries nutrient-rich subsurface water upward to the photic zone
- 3. Single celled microscopic organisms that aer found scattered throughout the photic zone
- 6. a plant body without true stems or roots or leaves or vascular system
- 7. Green photosynthetic pigment in plants
- 9. "Yellow, brownish, or green photosynthetic pigment in plants"
- 12. The study of classification
- 13. easterlies, One of three wind belts in the Northern Hemisphere (high latitudes)
- 17. The ability to glow in the dark; production of visible light by living organisms