Oceanography

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Across
  1. 4. Sound Navigation and Ranging
  2. 7. part of oceanography that deals with nonliving
  3. 12. highest point on a wave
  4. 13. ocean floor nearest the shoreline
  5. 16. where continental slope levels out; sediments here
  6. 19. long mountain chains that form at divergent boundaries
  7. 20. plankton that make their own food
  8. 21. part of oceanography that deals with living
  9. 23. current caused mostly by Earth's rotation
  10. 24. is more dense than freshwater
Down
  1. 1. a continuous flow of water in the ocean
  2. 2. flat ocean floor
  3. 3. deepest part of the ocean
  4. 5. ocean that covers the entire bottom of the globe
  5. 6. microscopic life at ocean's surface
  6. 7. largest ocean; lies west of the United States
  7. 8. word that means "must eat other organisms"
  8. 9. free swimmers; sharks and fish
  9. 10. distance from one point on a wave to another
  10. 11. ocean that is frozen much of the year
  11. 14. makes up 3% of ocean
  12. 15. saltiness of ocean water
  13. 17. energy moving through the water
  14. 18. study of the physical and biological ocean
  15. 22. bottom dwellers; crabs and seastars