Aquaculture
Name: ______________________ Date: ____________
Write the missing letters on the lines to finish each word.
1.
A
A
U
R
E
Rearing aquatic animals or cultivating aquatic plants for food
2.
E
E
D
Plant growing in the sea, especially marine algae
3.
A
B
Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded (plural)
4.
O
G
N
Gas in the air that we need to breathe
6.
E
P
E
T
R
How hot or cold something is
7.
A
W
S
Any of various edible decapod crustaceans (plural)
8.
E
D
T
R
Any animal that lives by preying on other animals (plural)
9.
T
B
I
Y
Muddiness created by stirring up sediment or having foreign particles suspended
10.
A
A
O
Any of various large edible marine gastropods of the genus Haliotis having an ear-shaped shell
11.
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I
M
T
The boundary line or the area immediately inside the boundary
12.
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I
V
R
E
Small ___ food and game fish of eastern United States streams
13.
A
M
O
A water solution of ___
14.
M
A
N
T
S
Large voracious dark-colored long-necked seabird with a distensible pouch for holding fish (plural)
15.
A
E
Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots
17.
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E
I
N
The exchange of goods for an agreed sum of money
18.
R
O
Flesh of any of several primarily freshwater game and food fishes
19.
P
C
E
S
G
Preparing or putting through a prescribed ___
23.
S
E
R
Any of several edible marine crustaceans of the families Homaridae and Nephropsidae and Palinuridae
24.
N
G
E
N
S
A young or small fish (plural)