Oceanography Crossword

These canyons include the deepest spots on Earth the Mariana Trench in the Pacific is 11 kilometers deep
The passively floating or weakly swimming usually minute animal and plant life of a body of water
Consisting of or containing salt or another word for salt
A steady incline marks the continental slope. Continental slopes in the Pacifica are stepper than those in the Atlantic ocean.
Thick layers of sediment, formed by the sunken remains of dead organisms from the surface, cover these vast, flat plains.
A long body of water curling in to an arched form and breaking on the shore
A body of water or air moving in a different direction, especially though a surrounding body of water or in air which there is less movement
This gradually sloping area borders each continent. Its width varies from just a few kilometers to as much as 1,300 kilometers from shore
Organisms that live on or in the bottom of a body of water
Free swimming aquatic animals essentially independent of wave and current action
Mountains whose peaks do not break the surface of the ocean water above them
The gravitational pull from the moon make it high & low