plastic problems
This common drink container often ends up in the ocean and takes 450 years to break down
what is plastic bottle?
Sea turtles often mistake these floating plastic items for jellyfish
What are plastic bags?
This simple action at the beach helps prevent trash from entering the ocean
What is picking up trash/beach cleanup?
The world's oceans contain this percentage of Earth's water
What is 97 percent?
Name one way you can reduce plastic use at school
What is using reusable water bottles/lunch containers?
About this many million tons of plastic enter our oceans each year (8-14)
What is 11 million tons?
Oil spills harm these animals by damaging their insulating fur or feathers
What are seabirds and sea otters?
These floating barriers help collect garbage in the ocean
What are ocean booms/barriers?
This largest ocean covers about 30% of Earth's surface
What is the Pacific Ocean?
These items can be used instead of plastic straws
What are metal/paper/bamboo straws?
These tiny pieces of broken-down plastic are smaller than 5mm and harm marine life
What are microplastics?
This percentage of sea birds have plastic in their stomachs
What is 90 percent?
This type of bag is better for the environment than plastic bags
What are reusable/cloth bags?
Most ocean pollution comes from this source (land-based activities)
What is human activity on land?
This R-word means to process waste into new materials
What is recycle?
This type of plastic fishing gear that gets lost at sea is called "ghost gear" and traps sea animals
What are abandoned fishing nets?
These filter-feeding giants can swallow thousands of plastic particles while eating
What are whales?
This teenage inventor created a system to collect plastic from the ocean
Who is Boyan Slat? (Created The Ocean Cleanup project)
This warm ocean current helps move pollution around the globe
What is the Gulf Stream?
This type of beach event helps clean up ocean pollution
What is a beach cleanup/coastal cleanup?
This term means the process of plastic breaking down into smaller and smaller pieces but never fully disappearing
What is degradation?
This process occurs when toxic chemicals from plastic build up in the food chain
What is bioaccumulation?
This new type of plastic is made from plants and can break down naturally
What is biodegradable plastic?
This deepest ocean zone contains plastic pollution even at 36,000 feet
What is the Hadal Zone?
Name three ways communities can prevent ocean pollution
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