Marine Ecosystem Crossword

Known as nature soup, decomposed marsh grass
Plants that are adapted to grow, it is either floating on the surface or submerged in mud
very simple plants that live in water; the size ranks from microscopic plankton to meters-long kelp
poison produced by a living organism
Where freshwater and salt water meet (coastal area)
Under layer; something to hold on to or attach to
an animal that eats another animal for food
Interaction of all living things in an area
an alteration of adjustment by a species improves the relationship in the environment
special blades on the bottom of the kelp above the hold fast that produce spores
the top of the kelp forest where blades rest on the surface of the water
a animal that eats plants
Forms an symbiotic relationship with corals
a long coral reef near the shore (parallel to it)
an island consisting of a circular coral reef surrounding a bay
rise and fall of Earth's water on its coastline
total amount of dissolved salts in a water sample
algae and animals that float in water which are carried by waves and the currents
a large stream of (waves) moving water the flows through the oceans
rotate between submergence and non submergence because of the tidal waves
organisms belonging to the animal kingdom.