Across
- 1. water that flows over the ground surface rather than soaking into the ground
- 6. deep ocean creatures create their own light
- 8. largest patch of plastic waste in the world
- 9. biggest fish in the world
- 12. pollution that comes from many sources
- 14. North and South Pacific, North and South Atlantic, Indian, Southern, and Arctic
- 15. organisms with the highest population in the ocean
- 16. influences the depth at which organisms live in the open ocean
- 17. the effect of Earth's rotation on the direction of winds and current
- 18. the average level of the ocean's surface at any given time
Down
- 2. a person who studies the diverse topics relating to the ocean such as marine life, plate tectonics, geology of the seafloor, etc
- 3. marine organisms moving to more favorable areas for reproduction and food
- 4. wetlands formed where rivers meet the sea
- 5. a typical seaweed attaches to rocks with this
- 6. largest animal in the world
- 7. global patterns created from the movement of the oceans such as the Gulf Stream
- 10. one of the geologic features in the ocean basin
- 11. large but temporary changes in global weather patterns due to higher than normal ocean water temperatures
- 13. largest coral reef in the world
- 15. pollutants discharged from a single identifiable location