"Trash Vortex" Quiz

What is a "gyre?"

• Large system of circulating ocean currents

• Water bottle

• A plastic fish

• Large system of organs in the human body that create bowel movements

Tags

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.RI.7.4

All plastic trash eventually makes its way ____

• down, set, hut

• downstream

• across the stream

• upstream

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.7.4

In what decade did American households begin using plastic disposables?

• 681 BCE

• 1990's

• 1980's

• 1950's

What year was bakelite, the first modern form of plastic, invented?

• 1343

• 1997

• 1907

• 2007

When plastic is introduced to gyres in the ocean, what is produced?

• Less trash

• More trash

• Oscar the Grouch

• Microplastics

Why do whales eat plastic bags?

• They taste great with kelp

• They mistake them for squid

• They are stupid and do not know any better

• Whales literally never eat plastic bags

Why do sea turtles eat plastic bags?

• They mistake them for jellyfish

• Master Splinter orders them to

• Sea turtles do not exist

• For the carbohydrates

Which item should be removed from the shopping cart?

• Bananas

• Fileted chicken breasts

• Plastic eating utensils

• Broccoli

• Rice

On what page in "Trash Vortex" does the timeline start?

• 65

• 44

• 91

• 3

• 56

What was the microscopic arrow worm seen eating?

• Big Mac

• Phytoplankton

• Aluminum cans

• Plastic Microbeads

• Wendy's 4 for $4