Science Reading on Ocean Exploration and Natural Resources (Fillable)
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Reading Passages on Ocean Exploration and Natural Resources for Earth Science
Part 2 - Ocean Exploration & Natural Resources
Reading Passage 1: Natural Resources
Reading Passage 2: Ocean Exploration
Reading Passage 3: Ocean Resources
Snapshot
Title: Title not stated.
Genre: Nonfiction.
Subject: Science / Earth Science / Ocean Science.
Primary Topic: Natural resources, ocean exploration, and ocean uses.
Estimated Guided Reading Level (A–Z): V.
What This Teaches Best
It clearly distinguishes nonrenewable, renewable, and reusable resources and explains why conservation matters.
It teaches how people explore the ocean using ROVs, AUVs, sonar, and satellites.
It explains major ocean-floor features and ocean life zones, from continental shelves to the hadal zone.
It shows that oceans provide biological and physical resources such as food, medicines, minerals, water, and fossil fuels.
It connects ocean resources to stewardship by discussing overfishing, pollution, habitat protection, and responsible use.
Learning Goals
Students will classify resources as nonrenewable, renewable, or reusable using examples from the text.
Students will describe the tools scientists use to explore and map the ocean.
Students will explain how ocean zones differ in light, depth, and living things.
Students will identify important biological and physical resources that come from the ocean.
Students will explain why conservation helps protect natural and ocean resources for the future.





