Across
- 1. free floating photosynthetic plants
- 3. excess nutrients stimulate bacterial growth
- 4. reefs best-known marine ecosystems
- 7. a bay where rivers empty to the sea
- 10. energy evaporates water
- 12. more water evaporates here than at higher latitudes
- 14. wetlands without trees
- 15. varieties of trees that grow in salt water
- 16. small amounts used in water to help keep your teeth healthy, but too much is unhealthy
- 19. rapid growth of algae
- 21. similar to bogs but fed by ground water
- 23. fish farming
- 24. water that seeps into land and is stored there
Down
- 2. depressions in a rocky shoreline that are flooded at high tide but retain at low tide
- 4. bleaching coral expel their algal partner and die
- 5. provide nutrients,sediments, and their muddy bottom support emergent plants
- 6. islands low, narrow, sandy islands that form along coastlines
- 8. temperature boundary in water
- 9. distribute water vapor around the globe
- 11. more water evaporates here than land
- 13. marsh shallow wetlands flooded regularly with seawater
- 17. evaporated ocean water cycles back to earth as this
- 18. shallow ecosystems where the land is usually saturated or submerged
- 20. areas of saturated ground
- 22. wetlands with trees
