Tide Pools

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. Fastener consisting of a resinous composition that is plastic when warm (4)
  2. 4. Rolling swells on the sea (5)
  3. 7. Small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers (6)
  4. 9. Plant growing in the sea, especially marine algae (7)
  5. 10. Freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral (plural) (6)
  6. 11. The star our planet orbits (3)
  7. 12. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots (5)
  8. 13. Large siphonophore having a bladderlike float and stinging tentacles (9)

Down

  1. 1. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded (4)
  2. 2. Unfertilized lobster roe (5)
  3. 3. A porous mass of interlacing fibers that forms the internal skeleton of various marine animals (6)
  4. 5. Echinoderms characterized by five arms extending from a central disk (8)
  5. 6. Huge body of salt water (5)
  6. 7. Tiny grains found on beaches (4)
  7. 8. Black marine bivalves usually steamed in wine (plural) (7)
  8. 14. Scaly swimmer that breathes through gills (4)