Oyster Population Word Puzzle!

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Across
  1. 2. Fineness or intricacy of texture or structure.
  2. 4. Cause to be under water.
  3. 6. Filter oxygen, algae, and particles from the water.
  4. 7. Raise (something) by means of ropes and pulleys.
  5. 13. Digests algae caught in the gills.
  6. 15. Holds the two halves of the oyster´s shell together.
  7. 16. Palp Sorts and transfers food from the gills to the dijestive tract.
  8. 17. The gradual destruction or diminution of something.
  9. 21. A large community of oysters living together.
  10. 23. Pumps the oyster´s blood.
  11. 24. One of the things that decimated the oyster population in New York harbor.
  12. 25. Baby oysters.oyster eggs.
  13. 26. A community of organisms interacting with their nonlivig envirorment.
  14. 28. One of New Yorks citys five Burroghs.
  15. 29. One of New Yorks citys five Burroghs.
  16. 30. Hard outer coverin made of the mineral calcium carbonate that protects the oyster.
Down
  1. 1. Muscle Opens and closes the shell.
  2. 3. An instrument for measuring thicknesses and internal or external diameters inaccessible to a scale, consisting usually of a pair of adjustable pivoted legs
  3. 5. an invertebrate of a large phylum which includes snails, slugs, mussels, and octopuses. They have a soft unsegmented body and live in aquatic or damp habitats, and most kinds have an external calcareous shell.
  4. 8. Put at risk of being harmed, injured, or destroyed.
  5. 9. One of the things that decimated the oyster populationin New York harbor.
  6. 10. Loss One of the things that decimated the oyster populationin New York harbor.
  7. 11. Skin-like covering that protects the Oyster´s organs.
  8. 12. One of New Yorks citys five Burroghs.
  9. 14. species An animal that is vital to their ecosystem.
  10. 18. One of New Yorks citys five Burroghs.
  11. 19. Island One of New Yorks citys five Burroghs.
  12. 20. Surges Occur when rising water is pushed into land, causing flooding.
  13. 22. Feeders Organisms that pump water through their bodies, filtering out alge and bacteria to eat.
  14. 27. Any of several edible, marine, bivalve mollusks of the family Ostreidae, having an irregularly shaped shell, occurring on the bottom or adhering to rocks or other objects in shallow water.