Across
- 4. path of water through our water
- 10. shallow, regularly flooded, wetlands
- 11. algae or tiny photosynthetic plants
- 12. shallow ecosystems with saturated or submerged land surfaces
- 13. deep-sea exploration submarine in 1977
- 14. long, narrow, sandy islands parallel to a coastline
- 17. best-known marine ecosystems
- 18. special trees that grow in water
- 21. “sea” in Greek
- 22. water can reside in these for centuries
- 24. responsible for metabolic processes within cells
- 25. layer below the epilimnion
Down
- 1. sharp temperature boundary between lake layers
- 2. hurricane that caused over $200 billion in property damage
- 3. depressions in rocky shoreline
- 5. its storage costs $2-3 billion a year in the U.S.
- 6. wetlands without trees
- 7. bays where rivers empty into the sea
- 8. communities occur on the bottom
- 9. vertical _____ is a key feature of aquatic systems
- 15. what height the water in wetland and swamps is usually at
- 16. 2006 conference on oceans, coasts, and islands
- 19. what communities wetlands may gradually convert to
- 20. have a warmer upper layer that is mixed by wind and warmed by the sun
- 23. phrase for the dead organisms on the ocean floor