Plastic Pollution: Vocab 2

Plastic Pollution: Vocab 2

Multiple Choice

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

• easily broken

• push or crowd

• able to float

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

Multiple Choice

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

• a circular or spiral path or motion

• the goods carried by a ship

• mass of swirling liquid, draws objects to is center

• push or crowd

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?

• path easily broken

• the goods carried by a ship

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

• liquid able to float

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?

• able to float

• easily broken

• push or crowd

• the goods carried by a ship

Multiple Choice

What does author's purpose mean?

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

• an author makes a claim

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