Seafood menu.The front and the back of this poster are swimming with vocabulary words. Use them to solve the clues below, and complete this crossword puzzle. To spell out the bonus words, unscramble Same as decrypt. See scramble. the letters in the parentheses. Across: 1. Tiny plants or plantlike organisms 2. that drift in the oceans: --. 2. Large continuous landmass land·mass n. A large unbroken area of land. landmass Noun a large continuous area of land landmass that's mostly surrounded by water:-- 3. Distance north or south of the equator as measured in degrees: 4. System of interactions between living and nonliving things:-- 5. Animal in its immature stage of development:-- Down: 6. A--species influences the survival of other species in the food web. 7. Tiny animals that can't swim well against the current: -- 8. Distance east or west of the prime meridian as measured in degrees:-- 9. Type of animal that nurses its young with milk --. 10. Animal with an external skeleton, segmented body, and paired, jointed legs: --. 11. A--is a region that receives less than 25 centimeters of precipitation per year. 12. A--is a massive slowly moving river of ice. 13. Type of whale that has giant comblike plates in its mouth to filter plankton:--. Bonus: On December 14, 1911, Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen beat (A)--explorer Robert Scott by a mere 34 days to become the first person to reach the South (B)--. ANSWERS 1. phytoplankton phytoplankton Flora of freely floating, often minute organisms that drift with water currents. Like land vegetation, phytoplankton uses carbon dioxide, releases oxygen, and converts minerals to a form animals can use. 2. continent 3. latitude 4. ecosystem 5. larva 6. keystone 7. zooplankton zooplankton: see marine biology. zooplankton Small floating or weakly swimming animals that drift with water currents and, with phytoplankton, make up the planktonic food supply on which almost all oceanic organisms ultimately depend (see 8. longitude 9. mammal 10. crustacean crustacean (krŭstā`shən), primarily aquatic arthropod of the subphylum Crustacea. Most of the 44,000 crustacean species are marine, but there are many freshwater forms. 11. desert 12. glacier 13. baleen baleen: see whale. Bonus: A. British B. Pole |
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