The Great Garbage Patch

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.

Which of the following is NOT a reason that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch was formed?

• Scientists broke down the plastics to study the harmful effects to sea life.

• Fishing boats have lost plastic fishing equipment and nets in the water.

• People sometimes do not throw their trash in the proper bins.

• The water currents have carried the garbage to the North Pacific Gyre.

According to the article, what is 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.

Which evidence from the article supports the statement below?

Cleaning up the Garbage Patch is too expensive for only one nation to handle.

• Due to the size and location, no nation will take the responsibility or pay the massive

  the expense of cleaning it.

• Over time, the garbage breaks down due to the wind, rain, and waves.

• We can help by preventing more garbage from getting in our waterways.

• Plastic is not biodegradable which means they never completely break down over time.

According to the article, what does biodegradable mean?

• Biodegradable items are the items that are found in the Garbage patch.

• Biodegradable items are those that will completely break down over time.

• Biodegradable items are those items that are only used by fishermen.

• Biodegradable items are those items that never fully break down

Choose the detail from the article that best complete the main idea organizer shown.

• The sea creatures are essential to the ocean's food web.

• Plastic is not biodegradable which means they never completely break down over time.

• Due to the size and location, no nation will take the responsibility or pay the massive the expense of cleaning it.

• Scientists broke down the plastics to study the harmful effects to sea life.

Put the details in the correct order.

• The location of the Great Garbage Patch

• Microplastics in the water

• The effects of microplastics on sea life

• The cost of cleaning up the Great Garbage Patch

• Ways to prevent further pollution

Reorder the trash items below from greatest amount found in our oceans to least.

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