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Scored quizzes drawn from the atlas. Pick a topic, a difficulty and a length, and see where you stand.

Nature's Mechanisms

The Founding Wave: Nature's Phenomena
Nature's Mechanisms · 5 questions
Five questions from the Phenomena and Species depth wave: symbiosis, natural selection, migration and the honest limits of a wild-population count.

World Ecosystems

Wetlands, Reefs and Deltas: New Ecosystems
World Ecosystems · 4 questions
Four questions from the wave that minted the Everglades, the Congo Basin rainforest, the Sundarbans, the Pantanal, Galapagos, kelp forests, the Okavango Delta and coral reef systems.

Biomes and Ecosystems of the World

Beyond the Familiar: New Biomes and Ecosystems
Biomes and Ecosystems of the World · 5 questions
Five questions from the wave that minted Chaparral, Temperate Rainforest and Freshwater as biomes, and Lake Baikal, the Mesopotamian Marshes, the Wadden Sea, the Coral Triangle, the Mesoamerican Reef, the Cerrado and Fynbos as ecosystems.
Worldwide Gaps: Savanna, Mangrove, Ross Sea and Daintree
Biomes and Ecosystems of the World · 5 questions
Five questions from the wave that minted Savanna and Mangrove Forest as biomes, the Ross Sea and Daintree Rainforest as ecosystems, and the Amazon river dolphin, California condor, coast redwood and sea otter as species.

More Quizzes

New Ground: Alpine Peaks, Brackish Water and the Chemistry of a Changing Ocean
5 questions
Five questions from this wave's twelve new pages: two new biomes, two new phenomena, and the honest scholarly debate behind them.
New Ground: Deserts, Plains and Poles
5 questions
Five questions from the wave that gave the atlas twenty new named ecosystems, from the Sahara to the Antarctic Peninsula.