Oceanography

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. The act of someone who fishes as a diversion (7)
  2. 6. An unusual rise of water along the seashore caused by a storm or a combination of wind and high tide (plural) (10)
  3. 10. A land mass that is surrounded by water (6)
  4. 11. The aggregate of small plant and animal organisms that float or drift in great numbers in fresh (8)
  5. 13. Any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough (plural) (6)

Down

  1. 1. A flow of electricity through a conductor (7)
  2. 2. Half woman and half fish (plural) (8)
  3. 4. A submersible warship usually armed with torpedoes (9)
  4. 5. Large brown seaweeds having fluted leathery fronds (4)
  5. 7. Plant growing in the sea, especially marine algae (7)
  6. 8. The periodic rise and fall of the sea level under the gravitational pull of the moon (plural) (5)
  7. 9. Rolling swells on the sea (5)
  8. 12. A cataclysm resulting from a destructive sea wave caused by an earthquake or volcanic eruption (7)