Ocean Unit Vocab. Words
Name: ______________________ Date: ____________
Write the missing letters on the lines to finish each word.
4.
c
t
A showy growth of e.g. feathers or skin on the head of a bird or other animal
6.
s
a
l
n
The taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth
9.
t
d
The periodic rise and fall of the sea level under the gravitational pull of the moon
10.
t
o
u
A narrow depression
12.
w
e
One of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid
14.
b
n
h
Organisms that live at or near the bottom of a sea
15.
c
h
m
o
n
h
s
Synthesis of carbohydrate from carbon dioxide and water
16.
e
t
u
The wide part of a river where it nears the sea
18.
n
e
t
The aggregate of actively swimming animals in a body of water ranging from microscopic organisms
19.
p
h
t
o
s
s
i
How plants make food from sunlight
20.
p
n
t
o
The aggregate of small plant and animal organisms that float or drift in great numbers in fresh
21.
p
o
u
i
Undesirable state of the natural environment being contaminated with harmful substances as
22.
r
f
A submerged ridge of rock or coral near the surface of the water
23.
t
e
c
A ditch dug as a fortification having a parapet of the excavated earth