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Hint	First Letter	Answer	% Correct
A small shrimplike crustacean of the open seas eaten by a number of larger animals, including baleen whales.	K	Krill	100%
The amount of dissolved salts present in water.	S	Salinity	100%
A system for the detection of objects under water and for measuring the water's depth by emitting sound pulses and detecting or measuring their return after being reflected.	S	Sonar	100%
A long, narrow depression on the seafloor.	T	Trench	100%
A ring-shaped carbonate (or coral) reef or series of islands.	A	Atoll	88%
The shallow (typically less than 200 m) and flat sub-marine extension of a continent.	C	{Continental} shelf	88%
An underwater ecosystem characterized by colonies of coral polyps held together by calcium carbonate.	C	Coral reef	88%
The major surface current flowing northwards along the Atlantic coast of the U.S. and Canada.	G	Gulf Stream	88%
A large, floating piece of glacial ice.	I	Iceberg	88%
A group of predominantly aquatic, photosynthetic, and nucleus-bearing organisms that lack the roots, stems, leaves, and specialized multicellular reproductive structures of true plants.	A	Algae	75%
A long, thin island parallel to the shore, created through the deposition of sand.	B	Barrier island	75%
A volcanic rock that makes up much of the oceanic crust.	B	Basalt	75%
The movement of water from one location to another.	C	Current	75%
The Earth’s crust underlying the oceans (as opposed to continental crust).	O	Oceanic crust	75%
The small and microscopic organisms drifting or floating in the sea or fresh water, consisting chiefly of diatoms, protozoans, small crustaceans, and the eggs and larval stages of larger animals.	P	Plankton	75%
The base level for measuring elevation and depth on Earth.	S	Sea level	63%
A flat region of the ocean floor, usually at the base of a continental rise, where slope is less than 1:1000.	A	{Abyssal} plain	50%
The sudden release and breaking away of a mass of ice from a glacier, iceberg, ice front, ice shelf, or crevasse.	C	Calving	50%
The measurement of depth of water in oceans, seas, or lakes.	B	Bathymetry	38%
A relatively large piece of floating sea ice, i.e., ice that has formed from frozen ocean water.	I	Ice floe	38%
Any of several continuous submarine mountain chains rising from the ocean floor.	O	Oceanic ridge	38%
A submerged mountain rising from the seafloor.	S	Seamount	38%
Unconsolidated particles of mineral or rock that settle to the seafloor.	S	Sediment	38%
The natural separation of an ocean's water into horizontal layers by density.	S	Stratification	25%
A boundary between a continent and the ocean that is also a tectonic plate boundary.	A	Active continental margin	13%