The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Where is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?

• San Francisco, California

• The North Pacific Gyre

• North America

• The Pacfic Rim

How many pieces of garbage are in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?

• 1.8 trillion pieces

• 1.8 million pieces

• 8 trillion pieces

• 80 million pieces

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What causes a gyre to form?

• garbage flows from the Pacific Rim

• fish and sea turtles eat too much

• water currents move around in a clockwise motion

• water currents move away from the center point

How did the garbage get there?

• Alaskan researchers found it there.

• It flowed there from the Pacific Rim.

• No one knows where it came from.

• Fishermen dumped it there.

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What contaminates the waters?

• baby sea turtles

• small sea creatures

• recycled water bottles

• microplastics

Why are microplastics so dangerous?

• The microplastics carry a toxic chemical.

• The microplastics are sharp and hurt sea life.

• The sea life mistake the small objects for food.

• The microplastics are hot like pepper.

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What is one factor that makes it hard to clean up?

• There is nowhere to put the garbage once collected.

• Scientists are using it for research.

• Too many nations are fighting to pay for it.

• The clean up nets could also catch small sea life.

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Which of the following is NOT a way that we can help?

• recycle plastics

• use only plastic straws

• educate others

• don't litter

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Which statement below is the main idea of the article, " The Great Pacific Garbage Patch"?

• The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is double the size of Texas.

• The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is too difficult to clean up.

• The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is harming sea life and needs our help.

• Microplastics are very small pieces of plastic.

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According to the article, what is the one reason it is so difficult to clean up the Garbage Patch?

• Nations around the world are not interested in cleaning it up.

• The Garbage Patch is not a big enough problem to worry about yet.

• Scientists believe the Garbage Patch will eventually flow away with the current.

• The cost to clean up the Garbage Patch is too much for one nation to handle.

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