Water Crossword

2. free floating phtosynthetic plants
7. a colorless, transparent, odorless liquid that forms the seas, lakes, rivers, and rain and is the basis of the fluids of living organisms.
9. The path of water through our environment
12. the zone with photosynthesis in the ocean
13. wetland with trees
17. when corals expel their algal partner and then die
18. bays where rivers empty into the sea
21. organisms that live on, in, or near the seabed, river, lake, or stream bottom
23. the area exposed by low tides
24. shallow ecosystems in which the land is submerged at least par of the year
25. zones to 4,000 meters
26. the area of seabed around a large landmass where the sea is relatively shallow compared with the open ocean.
27. a ridge of rock in the sea formed by the growth and deposit of coral.

1. the deep zones
3. ducks, geese, or other large aquatic birds, especially when regarded as game.
4. commonly found along shorelines and mudflats that wade in order to forage for food in the mud or sand
5. is an isolated pocket of seawater found in the ocean's intertidal zone.
6. "sea" in greek
8. a special variety of trees that grow in salt water
10. the middle zones
11. zones deeper than 6,00 meters
14. shallow wetlands flooded regularly with seawater
15. 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.
16. 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
19. shoreline zone
20. low narrow islands that formparallel to a coastline
22. wetland without trees