Inquiry

              We are known as the Blue Planet why?

    How many planets do you know of have water?

Test Your Knowledge so far...what do you know? (click here)

Descriptors of the main bodies of water-

Do you think the body of water might be related to the type of landform??

OCEANS- a vast body of salt water that separates or surrounds continents

SEA- a smaller division of the ocean, partially enclosed by land (or sometimes a very large lake) 

GULF- Arm of the ocean that reaches into land bay: a body of water that is partly enclosed by land, smaller than a gulf 

LAKE- a body of freshwater, surrounded by land 

RIVER- water that flows downhill in a natural channel

STREAM- Brook-Creek (much smaller collections of water moving into the soil)

WORLD WATER MAP... Can we try to identify some of these bodies of water?

1. Inquiry- Map work- application-organization-observation

Worksheets-https://er.jsc.nasa.gov/seh/Mission_Geography/k-4/Module_2/I-2-3.pdf