Garbage Patches

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is also called

• a nice place to go on vacation

• a floating garbage dump

• the Pacific trash vortex

• the Pacific trash volcano

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.

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.

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

• microphones

• microscopes

• micro-bacteria

• microplastics

What point does the author make about garbage patches?

• Although garbage patches are found all around the world, most people have trouble finding them.

• Garbage patches are more likely to form in oceans that are near large countries with many people.

• Although garbage patches are full of different types of trash, most of the garbage is food that can be eaten easily by animals.

• Garbage patches are so large and have so many small pieces of trash that people can be in the middle of one without realizing it.

What are the main ideas of the text?

• Garbage patches are found in many oceans around the world. These areas of garbage mainly contain plastics and old fishing gear.

• Garbage patches are formed when water creates whirlpools in oceans. The garbage stretches from the surface down to the ocean floor.

• Garbage patches are areas of the ocean that are full of trash and harmful materials. Scientists are working to develop ideas to remove the garbage.

• Garbage patches are sections of the ocean with large amounts of floating trash. This garbage is harmful to ocean life and must be addressed in some way.

How can we stop the garbage from growing?

• Take care of your trash and throw it out the right way.

• Remember that land and sea are both connected.

• Reduce the garbage you produce and recycle plastics.

• All of the above

Where is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?

• San Francisco, California

• The North Pacific Gyre

• North America

• The Pacific Rim

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

• 1.8 trillion pieces

• 80 million pieces

At first the sailor who discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch saw that there were __________________tons of plastic floating in the water

• 1 million

• 2 million

• 3 million

• 4 tmillion