Unit 4 Vocab.

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Across
  1. 2. The measure of acidity or basicity of a substance
  2. 3. bleaching When coral turns white due to sea warming
  3. 4. The amount of dissolved salts in a liquid
  4. 5. capacity Water absorbs a large amount of energy before becoming hot
  5. 6. Layer where density increases with depth and correspinds closely with the thermoclone and halocline
  6. 8. The production and emission of light by a living organism
Down
  1. 1. Layer where temp. rapidly decreaes with depth
  2. 4. channel Sound channel of a horizontal layer of water is formed where sound gets trapped and travels far
  3. 5. Layer where salinity changes rapidly with depth
  4. 7. acidification Lowering the oceans pH level due to increased levels of carbon dioxide