Quizzes and Games

 

Do you want to explore the Atlas in a fun way?

On this page, you will find several games and interactive activities! Click on the yellow buttons to access them and download the interactive quizzes.

Ocean Sports Game

Play the Ocean Sports Game 

Get to know the ocean through sports!
A new map layer on ‘European Maritime Day in My Country 2026’ has been added to the European Atlas of the Seas. The Atlas technical team hid five images of sports in the map. Will you find them?

Click on 'Play the Ocean Sports Game' to access the game's instructions, have a look at the Atlas team's hints to find the images and dive into the map to find them! 

You have found them? Congratulations! Progress to the next levels with the other components of the game to learn more about the ocean, coastal and water sports, marine biodiversity and citizen science!

Are you a teacher? Would you like to organise this game in your classroom? 

Have a look at the Teachers Guide!

Hide and Seek Game

Play the Atlas Hide and Seek Game 

A map layer titled ‘European Maritime Day in My Country 2025’ is available in the European Atlas of the Seas. Follow the hints of the Atlas team (click on the yellow button) to discover the five images they have hidden in the map and learn about marine biodiversity!

Are you a teacher? Would you like to organise this game in your classroom? Have a look at the Teachers Guide below!

Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Quiz

Ready to explore Europe's marine biodiversity and ecosystems? 
1. Download the presentation
2. Open it in slideshow mode
3. Start the quiz and select your answer  
4. Wrong answer? Click “That's not the answer... Let's try again!" If you see a map, you got it right!  
5. Need more details? Click the hyperlink below the map for further information.  
6. Ready to continue? Move to the next slide and keep exploring!  

Blue Economy Challenge

Atlas Blue Economy Challenge

They have done it again! The Atlas team has hidden five images related to sectors of the Blue Economy in the European Maritime Day in My Country 2024 map layer! To help you, they have revealed the geographical coordinates of the locations where they are hidden. Can you find them?

Marine Litter Quiz

Educational quiz

Geocaching Game

Play the Atlas Geocaching game

The Atlas’ technical team has hidden three objects in the map layer ‘European Maritime Day in My Country 2023’. The geographical coordinates for the locations where these objects can be found are included in the game instructions. By using the Atlas’ measure tool, students can find these locations and find the common theme to these three objects.

Teachers' Guide - Geocaching game

Boat races

Boat race level 1 (New Skipper)

Boat Race level 2 (Experienced skipper)

Discover activities organized across Europe for European Maritime Day in my Country 2022 by participating in a virtual boat race that will take you from Finland to Italy!

Boat race level 2 (Experienced skippers) is aimed at skippers who are already familiar with the European Atlas of the Seas and the use of geographical coordinates to find locations on a map. Not yet an experienced skipper in the Atlas? Become one with boat race level 1 (New skipper)!

Teachers' Guide - Boat race level 1

Teachers' Guide - Boat race level 2

Treasure Hunt

Treasure Hunt

Have you ever heard of a treasure, hidden in a map?

Resolve the questions in the game, travel through the European Atlas of the Seas and find the treasure!

Teachers' Guide - Treasure Hunt

Easter Egg

Easter Egg

Find our Easter Egg!

Solve the questions and see what happens!

Teachers' Guide - Easter Egg

Biodiversity Quiz

Biodiversity quiz

Learn about

• Marine Natura 2000 sites;
• Regional Sea Conventions; and
• Posidonia oceanica!