Across
- 4. comprise the Water column
- 5. In the middle of high tide and low tide
- 9. The path of water through our environment
- 10. Are special variety of trees that grow in salt water
- 14. The best-Known marine ecosystems
- 15. vary with depth, temperature, and salinity
- 18. Algeria or tiny, free-floating photosynthetic plants
- 20. low, narrow, sandy islands that form parallel to a coastline
- 21. Least light and oxygen gets here
- 23. Most light and oxygen gets here
- 24. Sharp temperature boundary
- 25. Elevated water temperatures causes this
Down
- 1. Bays where rivers empty into the sea, mixing fresh water with salt water
- 2. consists with crabs, filter-feeding organisms, strange phosphorescent fish, and other life forms
- 3. Shallow wetlands flooded regularly with seawater
- 6. Communities occur on the bottom
- 7. Wetlands without trees
- 8. shallow ecosystem in which the land surface is saturated at least part of the year
- 11. Known as littoral zones
- 12. America’s largest and most productive estuary
- 13. A key feature of aquatic ecosystem
- 16. Top of the Pelagic zone
- 17. Areas of saturated ground
- 19. Bottom of Pelagic zone
- 22. Depressions in a rocky shoreline that are flooded at high tide but some water at low tide