Across
- 4. Shallow wet land flooded regularly with sea water
- 5. areas saturated ground, and usually the ground is composed of deep layers
- 13. Among worlds most productive ecosystem
- 14. perhaps the most familiar material cycle
- 15. Free floating photosynthesis plants
- 16. wetlands without trees
- 17. depressions in rocks that are flooded
- 18. Evaporates about 496,000 km3 of water
- 20. where is most the earths water stored
- 22. Top layer of water
- 23. similar to boys except they are mainly fed by groundwater
- 26. shallow ecosystems in which the land surface is saturated/submerged > part of the year
- 27. rivers empty into sea mixing fresh & salt water
Down
- 1. low, narrow, sandy islands that form parallel to coast
- 2. Deepest layer of water
- 3. Water can reside for centuries/millennia
- 6. Sea in the western Atlantic
- 7. sharp temp boundary in water
- 8. Communities occur on the bottom
- 9. Trees that grow in salt water
- 10. vary mainly with depth, temp, salinity
- 11. what water is responsible for
- 12. consist of filter feeding organisms
- 19. Zones compromise the water column
- 21. Corals expel their algal partner and die
- 24. Decreases with depth
- 25. wetland describes by their vegetation