Microplastics Effect on the Ocean
What animal is mostly likely to eat microplastics found in the ocean?
What is Zooplankton
What are the names of the two types of microplastics
What is primary and secondary microplastics
What is plastic water bottles
What is the most common animal to start the microplastic food chain?
What is zooplankton
Where do microplastics hide in our bodies?
What is mostly in our tissues and brain
What chemical in microplastics makes it most toxic to the ocean?
What is colorant chemicals
Do microplastics ever truly leave our environment when released?
What is no
How does plastic move from the plastic lining in microwavable food to the actually food?
What is leaching
Why do organisms eat microplastics instead of nutrients?
What is they mistake it for their own food
How do humans get microplastics inside of them?
What is the food we ingest and the clothes we wear
How do microplastics affect the aquatic animals?
What is reproductive and immune issues
What is its cheap value and flexibility to do stuff
What is a misleading product that people think is plastic free?
What are paper cups
What is so bad about microplastics being in the food chain?
What is they transfer toxic chemicals to animals that disrupt their everyday functions
How do microplastics effect our body?
How much plastic is estimated to be in the ocean?
What is 15-51 trillion tons
What are examples of chemicals in microplastics?
What is colorants, POP's, and flame retardants
How much plastic is in tea bags?
What is 3.1 billion nanoplastics
What happens if a species dies due to having to many microplastics?
What is it disrupts the entire food chain
How do we remove microplastics from our bodies?
What is once microplastics are in our body we can't control them
How does plastic get degraded in the ocean into microplastics?
What is waves and UV radiation
What are the 3 stages of plastic sizes?
What is macro, micro, and nano
What is one of the worst foods/drinks to have due to how many microplastics it contains
What is tea from a tea bag
How does the microplastic food chain affect us?
What is we consume the animals that have ingested the microplastics so we also get the side effects
What part of our body facilitates the degradation of microplastics?
What is our digestive tract