Across
- 4. Marine Science research area that would study kelp and dolphins.
- 5. An important example of biological succession in the ocean. Whale ________
- 7. Your Marine Science teacher's name
- 8. Home of country music and the most populated city in the path of totality.
- 9. The least populated state that will be in the path of totality
- 11. DESCRIBES a scientific event. Often accompanied by mathematical formulas.
- 14. Variable that you intentionally manipulate
- 15. All of the living and non-living things interacting in a specific geographic area.
- 17. A non-living thing that affects an ecosystem.
- 18. The seafloor or bottom of the ocean is in the __________ zone
- 21. The stable star that Earth orbits.
Down
- 1. Marine Science research area concerned with land, rocks, and seafloor
- 2. Marine Science research area that studies water temperatures, hurricanes, and climate change.
- 3. Marine Science research area that studies increasing acidity in the water itself.
- 6. Variable that you measure
- 10. An individual life form
- 12. Protected marine waters are National Marine _____________
- 13. Including today, the number of days you've gone to school this year.
- 16. Needed for all life to exist
- 18. A living thing that affects an ecosystem
- 19. EXPLAINS a scientific event. Often a hypothesis that has been accepted many times.
- 20. The number of oceans on Earth (if you think about it)