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Plastic Pollution: Vocab 2

Plastic Pollution: Vocab 2

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7th Grade

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RI.9-10.4, RI.6.6, RI.6.4

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Brittany Brick

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Plastic Pollution: Vocab 2

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Under the sun's ultraviolet rays, plastic turns pale and brittle. Brittle means what?

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easily broken

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push or crowd

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able to float

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a circular or spiral path or motion (of the ocean)

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Multiple Choice

In this trash vortex, plastic trash remains trapped for years. Vortex means what?

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a circular or spiral path or motion

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the goods carried by a ship

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mass of swirling liquid, draws objects to is center

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push or crowd

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Multiple Choice

Ebbesmeyer convinced Moore that a gyre's slow-moving water does not simply carry plastic bits of trash- it creates them. What does gyre mean?

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path easily broken

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the goods carried by a ship

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a circular or spiral path or motion (of the ocean)

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liquid able to float

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Multiple Choice

When containers of manufactured goods slipped off ships, Ebbesmeyer mapped the travels of their buoyant plastic contents to beaches around the world. Buoyant means what?

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able to float

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easily broken

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push or crowd

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the goods carried by a ship

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Multiple Choice

What does author's purpose mean?

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a circular or spiral path or motion (of the ocean)

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an author makes a claim

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the reason an author writes a text or a section of text

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