• Shark Week focuses on many different types of sharks.shark 2 image by cherie from Fotolia.com
  
  Shark Week is a very popular feature on the Discovery Channel every summer, during which the channel airs a schedule that is nearly entirely shark-related programming. As added content for Shark Week, Discovery has also added Shark Week games to their website, which range from educational to purely entertaining.
  
  

Quizzes

• Shark Quiz games are an excellent way for visitors of the website to test the knowledge that they have garnered from their time watching Shark Week programming. The Ultimate Shark Quiz is the testing ground for those looking to test their knowledge of sharks. The quiz asks the user questions that pertain to the actions and characteristics of the sharks themselves.
  
  For those looking to take on Shark Week from the human side of the equation, the Discovery website also offers a quiz on occupations that people can have pertaining to the study and control of sharks. By taking the Shark Jobs Quiz, the user can test their knowledge of the responsibilities of these job holders.
  
  

Shark-themed Classics

• For users simply looking to have some fun in the spirit of Shark Week, Discovery also makes several shark-themed variations of classic games available to the players. Online jig saw puzzles, depicting scenes with sharks in them, can be assembled in the Interactive Puzzles and New Super Puzzles games. Players can complete slide puzzles of sharks, featuring a picture cut into a grid and rearranged, with one tile missing, that must be put back together by sliding tiles into the empty space. A concentration game is also offered, where players are faced with a grid of face-down tiles that are turned over in pairs, with both tiles removed if they match when turned over.
  
  

Other Games

• The website also features shark-related online games. In Ring of Death, a player is given control over six seals stranded on an island surrounded by 12 hungry sharks. While the game is, at heart, a quiz game, it has a unique presentation as the player loses a seal every time he incorrectly answer one of the questions. Games such as Sharkrunners and State of the Shark Map offer interactive data to the user that accurately reflect real world shark data that is being gathered, which the player can interact with to better understand the shark population.