What Is Ocean Pollution?
Most ocean pollution comes from this location. Guess the word.
What happens to birds' feathers during oil spills?
Answer: They get coated in thick blacksludge
Name one item listed as "plastic waste" in the PpT.
Answer: Bottles, bags, or fishing nets
What's the first "R" in "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle"?
Answer: Reduce
How many marine animals die yearly from plastic?
Answer: Over 1 million
True or False:
Ocean pollution only comes from oil spills.
Answer: False,
It also includes plastic, chemicals, and sewage
Why do turtles eat plastic bags?
Answer: They mistake them for jellyfish
What creates "black, sticky water" in the ocean?
Answer: Oil spills
Name one reusable item to replace plastic.
Answer: Bottles, bags, or containers
True or False: Plastic decomposes in 50 years.
Answer: False it takes 450+ years
Name two types of human-made waste that enter the ocean.
Answer: Plastic bottles/bags,
fishing nets, sewage, or chemicals
Microplastics in fish affect humans by:
A) Making fish taste better
B) Entering the food chain and potentially causing illness
C) Helping fish grow faster
Answer: B (Entering the food chain and potentially causing illness)
Multiple Choice:
The main source of toxic chemicals in oceans is:
A) Volcanoes
B) Factories and industries
C)Underwater plants
Answer: B(Factories and Industries)
Why is cleaning plastics before recycling important?
Answer: Dirty plastics can contaminaterecycling batches
What happens when plastic breaks into microplastics?
Answer: lt enters the food chain/humans eat it
What shocking fact was given about plastic entering the ocean?
Answer:
A garbage truck ofplastic enters the ocean every minute
Name two ways coral reefs are harmed by pollution.
Answer: Poisoning from chemicals,suffocation by plastic, or loss of seaweed beds
How do fishing nets harm marine life?
Answer: They trap or injure animals like seals
Long Answer: How can spreading awareness help reduce pollution?
Answer: Educatingothers encourages more people to take action
Multiple Choice:
Slowing plastic pollution helps:
A) Only marine animals
B) Only humans
C)Animals, oceans, and humans
Answer: C (Animals, oceans, and humans)
How does rain contribute to ocean pollution?
Answer:
lt washes chemicals from farms anasewage from cities into the ocean
Long Answer: Explain how ocean pollution disrupts the seafood supply.
Answer: Fewer fishsurvive in polluted water, and contaminated fish are unsafe to eat, hurting fishermen's livelihoods
What percentage of ocean trash is plastic?
Answer: PpT doesn't specify, but students couldinfer "most" or cite the "8 million tons" statistic
What is one solution scientists are working on?
Answer: Cleaning the oceans or findingalternatives to plastic
Long Answer: Explain how plastic pollution is a "human health issue"
Answer: Microplasticsin seafood can make people sick