Water Voss-World Puzzle

2. controls light penetration and temperature
6. the deepest ocean layers are called the _____ zone
9. coral reefs and ______ are among the world’s most productive and diverse ecosystems
10. rock that can contain or transmit groundwater
11. process of water movement through a plant and its evaporation from aerial parts, such as leaves and stems
14. similar to bog except they are mainly fed by groundwater
18. most marine communities depend on _______ organisms
19. _______ affects the amount of oxygen that can be stored in water
20. occupied by a variety of snails, burrowing worms, fish, and other organisms
22. the _______ redistributes water through our environment
24. _____ islands popular for real estate development
25. process of the water cycle allows water to enter the surface of the Earth
26. a chemical sometimes used to disinfect drinking water supplies
27. conversion of solid/liquid by heat to fumes/vapor

1. “sea” in Greek
3. shallow ecosystems in which land surface is saturated/submerged for a part of the year
4. special variety of trees that grow in salt water
5. “Get out of my wooded wetland!”
7. corals expel their algal partners and then die via _____
8. noun for the act of being filtered through a thick or porous substance
12. the oceans cover about ______ percent of the Earth’s surface
13. free-floating photosynthetic plants
15. sharp temperature boundary
16. onions and ogres are like oceans, they have ____(s)
17. depressions in a rocky shoreline
21. another name for water
23. a large store of something (typically water)