Mariner's Challenge
Michael League, Shipboard Education Coordinator and M.S. Student at the University of Delaware College of Marine and Earth Studies in Lewes, Delaware, developed
the following crossword puzzle to test your knowledge of the Extreme
2004 mission. Can you dive in and answer all the clues?
Across
5. 274 foot research vessel
6. complex interplay between organism and environment
10. molten rock
11. submersible used to locate the Titantic
14. plates upon which the continents and oceans rest
16. built the Trieste
19. home port of Alvin and the R/V Atlantis
20. compounds giving "black smokers" their color
22. process by which new seafloor is created
Down
1. hair-like projections lining the arms of the vent octopus
2. process by which organisms make food from chemicals
3. Alvinella pompejana
4. ocean depression containing the deepest point in the ocean
7. vent field containing the tallest known vent chimneys
8. Greek word meaning "deep"
9. port of departure for Extreme 2004
12. sailng vessel used in a landmark ocean study from 1872 to 1876
13. study of an organism's full DNA sequence
15. underwater guysers teaming with life
17. scientific name for tubeworm
19. submerged portion of continents
20. light-producing
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