Pacific Garbage Patch

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is also called

• a nice place to go on vacation

• a floating garbage dump

• the Pacific trash vortex

• the Pacific trash volcano

Why is the Pacific trash vortex almost impossible to measure?

• Pieces of debris sink or move around

• We can't find the garbage patch

• The garbage patch is disappearing

• There is no garbage patch, its made up.

What details is the image showing you? (pick two)

• That there is more than one garbage patch.

• that garbage patches are bad.

• that garbage patches are clean.

• Where the garbage patches are in the ocean.

True or false, plastic is does not biodegrade or disappear.

• True

• False

Tiny pieces of plastic that don't break down or biodegrade are called

• microphones

• microscopes

• micro-bacteria

• microplastics

True or false, all of these objects were found floating in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

• True

• False

How can we stop the garbage from growing?

• Take care of your trash and throw it out the right way.

• Remember that land and sea are both connected.

• Reduce the garbage you produce and recycle plastics.

• All of the above