Plastic Oceans

Plastic Oceans

TEEL paragraph

Explain how plastic polution in the oceans affects ONE geographical process.

• This lesson, you are answering this question as revision

• You will be presented with a series of sentences that you need to reorder into a TEEL paragraph

Plastic Oceans Revision

Multiple Choice

Plastic pollution is causing microplastics to enter marine food webs.

• Topic sentence

• Elaboration

• Explanation

• Link

Multiple Choice

By what year do scientists predict plastic will outweigh fish in the ocean, Kg for Kg?

• 2020

• 2050

• 3000

• 2075

Multiple Choice

There are 51 trillion microplastic particles in the ocean today—500 times more than the number of stars in our galaxy.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

How many million tons of plastic are dumped in our oceans every year?

• 1 million tons

• 8 million tons

• 20 million tons

• 50 million tons

Multiple Choice

What happens to plastic waste?

• it is biodegradable

• all of it is recyclable

• it breaks down in to smaller pieces

• it is dumped in the ocean for fish to eat

Multiple Choice

The Great Pacific garbage patch is

• a gyre of plastic in the north central Pacific Ocean

• a floating island of plastic

• caused by humans

• all of the above

Multiple Choice

Which of these activities can lead to plastic in the ocean?

• Throwing a gum wrapper out of a car window.

• Accidentally leaving toys on the beach

• Wind blowing plastic out of a full trash bin

• All of the above

Multiple Choice

All plastic pollution is big enough to see.

• True

• False

TEEL Revision

Fill in the Blanks

T topic sentence - uses the

in the question and states the answer to the question

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E elaboration - defining key

, providing additional information about the topic

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E explanation - explaining the answer, addressing the

in the question and using examples

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L link - use the words in

the question and your key

to sum up