Water Crossword

6. zones to 4,000 meters
8. ducks, geese, or other large aquatic birds, especially when regarded as game.
11. wetland without trees
13. a steep temperature gradient in a body of water such as a lake, marked by a layer above and below which the water is at different temperatures.
15. the zone with photosynthesis in the ocean
17. the area exposed by low tides
21. the area of seabed around a large landmass where the sea is relatively shallow compared with the open ocean.
22. zones deeper than 6,00 meters
23. a special variety of trees that grow in salt water
24. The path of water through our environment
25. bays where rivers empty into the sea
26. organisms that live on, in, or near the seabed, river, lake, or stream bottom

1. a ridge of rock in the sea formed by the growth and deposit of coral.
2. when corals expel their algal partner and then die
3. "sea" in greek
4. A thermocline is a thin but distinct layer in a large body of fluid in which temperature changes more drastically with depth than it does in the layers above or below
5. low narrow islands that formparallel to a coastline
7. commonly found along shorelines and mudflats that wade in order to forage for food in the mud or sand
9. shallow ecosystems in which the land is submerged at least par of the year
10. the middle zones
12. wetland with trees
14. shoreline zone
16. is an isolated pocket of seawater found in the ocean's intertidal zone.
18. the deep zones
19. a colorless, transparent, odorless liquid that forms the seas, lakes, rivers, and rain and is the basis of the fluids of living organisms.
20. free floating phtosynthetic plants
27. shallow wetlands flooded regularly with seawater