Great Pacific Garbage Patch

How many ocean garbage patches are there?

• 1

• 3

• 6

• 8

What is a gyre?

• a circular ocean current formed by wind patterns and the rotation of the Earth

• a Greek sandwich

• a patch of garbage

• a vortex created by the different ocean temperatures

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Which ocean does not have a garbage patch?

• Pacific

• Atlantic

• Indian

• Arctic

The great Pacific garbage patch contains about ___ pieces of plastic for every person on the Earth.

• 10

• 100

• 250

• 1000

What is the most troubling aspect of the garbage patch?

• microplastics

• plastic bags

• fishline and nets

• plastic bottles

Which of the following is not an affect of plastics on marine life?

• Organisms get entangled and become trapped in plastics.

• Organisms require plastic to make a home safe from predators.

• Organisms mistake plastics for food and their stomachs become full of undigestable plastics.

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The consumption of plastic by marine organisms has no impact on human health.

• True

• False

How  is this clean up system moving through the water?

• a propeller

• a motor

• natural ocean forces

• wind

Which of the following is NOT a safety feature of this device?

• The screen moves slowly so marine life can swim away  or escape its movement.

• Since the screen doesn't let anything pass through, the ocean currents will move organisms under the skirt while plastics float to the top

• The marine life can't become entangled in the screen since it is not a net.

• Smaller plastics are filtered out and left behind in the water.

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If nothing is done about the plastic in the oceans, what will happen by 2050?

• Everything in the ocean will die.

• Ocean plastic will outweigh ocean fish.

• Boats will have difficulty navigating the oceans because of the plastics.

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