Wetlands Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 4. living or growing on or near the water.
  2. 7. the study of the properties,distributation,and effects of water of the Earth and atmosphere.
  3. 8. an animal without a backbone.
  4. 12. an individual form of life, an animal plant,fungus,protistan,or moneran.
  5. 13. an animal with a backbone.
  6. 15. refers to species of animals.
  7. 16. refers to species of animals.
Down
  1. 1. dead plant animal and other organic matter.
  2. 2. a substance that organisms require to live.
  3. 3. a bottomland hardwood forest flooded by adjacent streams and rivers.
  4. 5. many different species of animals,plants,and other organisms living in a certain area.
  5. 6. thickness or opaqueness made by the stirring up of sediment.
  6. 9. living on or growing near land.
  7. 10. decaying plants and other organisms found in wet soils of the wetland provide nutrients for the food web cycle.
  8. 11. an environment found at the boundary where the sea and river meet and mix fresh water and salt water.
  9. 14. the entire area drained by a stream and its tributaries.