WorksheetsGreat Pacific Garbage Patch
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 6mins
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
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.
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.
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.
