Research Questions

Answer the following questions on a piece of notebook paper.  They will be handed in!  After answering all of the questions using the links from the previous page, choose whether to go to the mountains or to go to the oceans!  GOOD LUCK!

1. What are some ways that mountains are used?

2. Name the four types of mountains and one example of each.

3. Do mountains occur more on land or in the oceans?

4. Define mountain building.

5. Name a U.S. state that is actually the top of a volcanic mountain.

6. About how much of the Earth's surface is covered by oceans?

7. Click on the "Why Oceans are Salty by Herbert Swenson" link at the bottom of www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/ocean.  Why is the ocean salty?

8. There is one large ocean.  What are the five oceans it is divided into?

9. List the oceans in order from the smallest to the largest.

10. Name five animals that live in the ocean and one fact about each.

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