The Ocean
The number of oceans on earth.
What is 5?
Large pieces of plastics.
What is macroplastics?
the gradual accumulation of pollutants in an organism.
What is bioaccumulation?
Each of the letters in POP stand for these words.
Persistant
Organic
Pollutant
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
Life is a series of _______ that allow our bodies to function.
What is chemical reactions?
a whirlpool of debris in the ocean
What is a gyre?
Large pieces of plastics are broken down by interacting with these two things.
What is sunlight and water?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
The connection of organisms that are prey and predator.
What is a food web?
organisms that consume POPS first, as POPs settle on the ocean surface.
What is plankton or zooplankton?
An organism's reaction to a chemical agent.
What is a response?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
Pacific Garbage Patch is located in this gyre.
What is North Pacific Gyre?
Broken down pieces of large plastics.
What are Microplastics?
pollutants that are passed along the food chain result in this.
What is biomagnification?
POPS are __________. (hydrophilic/hydrophobic)
What is hydrophobic?
The amount of exposure to a chemical.
What is a dose?
National organization that promotes conservation, stewardship, and ocean research.
What is the National Marine Sanctuary System?
these small plastic particles are found in face washes and cleaners.
What are microbeads?
plankton and fish consume these plastics by mistake.
What are microplastics?
POPs accumulate in these types of tissues.
What is fatty tissue?
The dose-response curve usually has this shape.
What is S shaped?
Two benefits of the ocean.
answers will vary: enjoyment, vacation, food supply, etc.
tiny plastic fibers that shed from synthetic clothes in the washing machine.
What are microfibers?
Organisms at the _____ of the food chain have consumed more pollutants than organisms at the _____ of a food chain.
What is top & bottom?
POPs accumulate in ______ 1 million times more than the surrounding sea water.
What is Plastics?
What is LD50?