3 Weeks of Words
What is Insecticide?
The largest garbage "patch" is found in this ocean.
What is the Pacific?
Aiming to address plastic pollution, 12 states (including Maine) have banned this item commonly used in grocery stores.
What are single-use plastic bags?
A large system of circular ocean currents.
What is a gyre?
Madame White lived and worked in this African Country which was also the setting of The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind.
What is Malawi?
Tiny plastic beads used to make other plastic products.
What are Nurdles?
In some parts of the Mediterranean Sea, this outnumbers plankton by a ratio of 1:2.
What are microplastics?
A common, alliterative phrase that summarizes what humans can do to address plastic pollution at each stage of the life cycle.
What is reduce, reuse, recycle?
An extreme weather event as seen in movies killing an evil witch and composed of sharks... respectively.
What is a tornado?
This classroom item is deeply tied to Mr. Max's sanity.
What are pencils?
A majority or large group of people.
What are Masses?
Garbage patches are often thought of as islands, but they have more in common with this type of air pollution which is commonly found over large, industrial cities.
What is smog?
An alliterative organism that can consume/digest plastic waste.
What is a wax worm?
This local(ish) NBA team was kicked out of the playoffs, losing a 3-1 lead in the series.
Who are the Boston Celtics?
This teacher went to see an electronic music artist for the 6th or 7th time this past weekend.
Who is Ms. Olson?
A written version of spoken words as in a movie.
What is Transcript?
The name of the captain introduced at the beginning of Trash Vortex.
Who is Charles Moore?
The tropical-sounding name of a boat made of 12,500 used water bottles.
What is Plastiki?
Invented in 1908 by a custodian, this household tool saves time on chores as much as it terrorizes pets.
What is a vacuum?
What is Skowhegan?
Causing harm in a way that is gradual and/or not easily noticed.
What is Insidious?
Some living organisms can break down plastic, a process known as this.
What is bio-degradation/biodegrading?
Perhaps the most important tool to solving plastic pollution is this trait/skill possessed by humans.
Think vocab...
What is ingenuity?
A period of great change during one's adolescent life, typically beginning around middle school.
What is puberty?
At one point, this teacher had 11 fingers.
Who is Ms. Sage?