Across
- 2. Stinging Hydroid, Powerful sting, Colony looks like clumps of feathers or ferns
- 4. Separated from the coastline by deep lagoons
- 6. responsible for the stinging, digesting prey
- 9. animals responsible for building the reef
- 10. Most common, Coastline
- 13. Giant Anemone, Caribbean reefs
- 14. White Shark, Intelligent, capable of social interaction
- 19. Create protected lagoons in the middle of the ocean
- 20. Antarctic Anemone, Eats starfish, sea urchins and jellyfish
- 21. Grow between fringing reefs and barrier reefs
- 22. not moving
- 23. Whale Shark, Harmless filter feeder, Largest fish in the world
Down
- 1. Lion’s Mane Jellyfish, Arctic Ocean, northern Atlantic Northern Pacific
- 3. Jewel Anemone, Not true anemones, Resemble coral polyps
- 5. skeleton is made of flexible cartilage, backbone
- 7. Up to 10 feet long, Considered to have some of the deadliest venom in the world
- 8. Blue Buttons, Modified for free-floating existence
- 11. Painted Ray, Northern Europe
- 12. provide the color for the coral
- 15. Cloak Anemone, Lives with base wrapped around the shell of the hermit crab
- 16. capture food and ward off predators
- 17. Moon Jellyfish, Mainly in coastal waters
- 18. is a freshwater genus that has bypassed the medusa stage