World Seas Puzzle is a small knowledge-level game designed to test your ability to place the planet's vast marginal seas on the world map. This fun geography exercise is perfect for studying the names, sizes, and locations of the 20 largest terrestrial seas. It's an excellent free educational tool for online lessons, interactive science classes, and exciting homework assignments. Can you beat the clock in this "Minute to win it" challenge?
Every puzzle piece represents one of the 20 largest marginal seas or gulfs in the world. They are generated at the top of the screen. Drag and drop the seas onto their correct locations on the world map at the bottom of the screen. Note that the smaller the number on the puzzle piece, the larger the actual sea is by surface area!
Knowledge Achievements:
Memorise the locations of at least 10 major seas to earn +1 Knowledge Level on Planeta 42.
Difficulty: Easy.
This geography learning game answers the following common questions:
Q: Which is the biggest sea in the world?
A: The Philippine Sea is the largest marginal sea, covering a massive 5.695 million square kilometres in the western part of the North Pacific Ocean.
Q: Which are the 10 largest seas?
A: The top 10 featured in this game include the Philippine Sea, Coral Sea, Arabian Sea, Sargasso Sea, South China Sea, Weddell Sea, Caribbean Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Gulf of Guinea, and the Tasman Sea.
Q: What is the location of the Barents Sea?
A: The Barents Sea is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean, located off the northern coasts of Norway and Russia.
The sea, connected as the world ocean, is the body of salty water that covers over 70% of the Earth's surface. A marginal sea is a division of an ocean, partially enclosed by islands, archipelagos, or peninsulas. The game includes seas over 1 million km². Here are the top 10:
5.695 million km²
4.791 million km²
3.862 million km²
3.500 million km²
3.500 million km²
2.800 million km²
2.754 million km²
2.510 million km²
2.350 million km²
2.300 million km²
...And the remaining top 20:
11. Bay of Bengal (2.172M km²), 12. Bering Sea (2M km²), 13. Sea of Okhotsk (1.583M km²), 14. Gulf of Mexico (1.550M km²), 15. Gulf of Alaska (1.533M km²), 16. Barents Sea (1.4M km²), 17. Norwegian Sea (1.383M km²), 18. East China Sea (1.249M km²), 19. Hudson Bay (1.23M km²), and 20. Greenland Sea (1.205M km²).
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