Check Your Understanding

1.–2. Work with a partner to complete each item.

• 1. Classify What ideas in the selection go together? Show a group of ideas in a web.

  

• 2. Sum It Up Use the web to retell what you learned about the ocean.

Review Vocabulary

3.–7. Read the paragraph aloud. Add the vocabulary words.

From space, the _____ looks like a ball of colors. The white parts are clouds. The blue is the water in the _____. The ocean covers 71% of Earth’s _____. The water in the Arctic Ocean is very _____. The land near the ocean can be _____.

Write about the Ocean

8. Write about what it would be like to live in the ocean. Would you be cold? Would you miss the rest of the world?