Ocean Health

4. Pollution in the form of sand and dirt clogging waterways.
6. Albatross chick vomit.
7. Produced from the burning of fossils fuels and helps create the Greenhouse Effect.
8. The name of the island of trash floating in the Pacific Ocean.
10. Pollution in the form of chemical waste.
14. A change in Earth's climate, largely due to an increase in carbon emissions.
15. The change of phase from gas to liquid.
16. When a coral "spits" out the algae living in its body.
21. An increase in the Earth's average temperature.
22. The path that water takes in the environment as it changes state and location.
23. When the pH of the ocean decreases, shelled organisms may ______________.
24. Corals rely on the algae living in their bodies for the majority of their ___________.
25. 25% of all marine organisms live in this threatened ecosystem.

1. Corals and trees share this in common.
2. The process by which plants release water into the environment.
3. The change of phase from liquid to gas.
5. Pollution in the form of fertilizer getting into the water.
6. Pollution in the form of living organisms that cause sickness.
9. This type of man-made material takes a very long time to decompose.
11. The decrease of pH in the ocean due to the absorption of CO2.
12. This scale is used to tell how acidic or basic a solution is.
13. The amount of time any type of matter stays in one state and location during its cycle.
17. The island of trash is estimated to be 2 X the size of ___________________.
18. The most well-known bird found on Midway Island.
19. Represent the largest reservoir of freshwater on our planet and has the longest residence time.
20. An individual coral animal.