Across
- 7. this nutrient can enter via run-off from farms, detergents, or sewage
- 9. this disk helps to determine the visibility in the water
- 12. plankton that are only planktonic in early stages
- 13. almost all of these animals without backbones start their lives as plankton
- 16. a ______ zone is an area devoid of oxygen due to an algal bloom
- 17. these are how plankton are collected
- 19. plankton form the base of the food _____
- 20. this line can determine depth of water - used extensively before SONAR
- 21. this nutrient can enter via run-off from farms or sewage
- 23. this bottle is meant to collect water samples at different depths - this year we lost ours into the bay!
- 24. plankton that are planktonic their whole lives
- 27. group of phytoplankton more associated with harmful algal blooms
- 28. this is how we currently measure salinity, its about electrical current flow
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- 1. cold water ____ brings nutrients that feed phytoplankton
- 2. large/long colonial gelatinous animals
- 3. we used a crab trap that is a type of ___ - it tangles up the crab's legs
- 4. this tool tells salinity using the water density
- 5. animal like plankton
- 6. phytoplankton more than 50% of the worlds ____ to the water and air which we need to breathe
- 8. these are just amazing, often large, zooplankton
- 9. how we image plankton from space
- 10. a very common zooplankton, plankton from spongebob
- 11. this color scale can tell us about the sediment, phytoplankton, or other in the water
- 14. causing plankton to have a tough time shell building, caused from CO2 entering ocean
- 15. the word plankton means ____
- 18. plankton that photosynthesize
- 22. due to phytoplankton the ocean is a carbon _____
- 24. caused when dinoflagellates release biotoxins into the water
- 25. how we collect plankton to ID species in the water
- 26. the disk used to measure visibility