Ocean Plastics Quiz

What are microplastics?

• Large sheets of plastic used to store fish and seafood

• Tiny plastic particles created by the disintegration of larger plastic items

• A group of plastic items that collect together to form a 'belt' of plastic

• Small purchases of extra plastic that you can make when you buy larger plastic items

• Large sheets of plastic used to store fish and seafood

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Why is plastic dangerous for marine life? (Check all that apply)

• They mistake it for food and cannot digest it

• They can get tangled in it

• It's not dangerous because they use plastic waste for habitats

• It's not dangerous unless it's small enough to eat

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Where does the majority of plastic waste end up?

• Burned for energy

• Landfill

• Recycled

• Oceans

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Which of the following is true about plastic?

• It's cheap

• It's versatile (many uses)

• It's disposable

• All of the above

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True or False: Plastic in the ocean ends up in the food you eat.

• True

• False

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How long does it take plastic to degrade?

• 500-1000 years

• 200 years

• 150 years

• 50 years

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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.

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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.

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

• True

• False

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

• microphones

• microscopes

• micro-bacteria

• microplastics

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