Vocabulary
What is the definition of an organism
An organism is any living thing
What is the adjective, the word that describes the noun ( a person, place or thing) in this sentence:
The blue ocean is contaminated by plastic.
blue
When plastic breaks down into smaller pieces, those pieces are called
microplastics
What would happen is sea turtles, who eat jellyfish, became extinct
The jellyfish would overpopulate, and eat more of the plankton in the ocean
If an animal cannot digest something....what does that mean
It means that the stomach acids cannot break that thing down into smaller pieces
What is the adjective, the word that describes the noun ( a person, place or thing) in this sentence:
The plastic bag was mistaken for a jellyfish.
plastic
The microscopic plants and animals that fish eat are
called :
plankton
What might happen if an ocean organism eats too much trash?
It may not be able to digest all the trash, and then it would feel full, forget to eat, and maybe die of starvation
What does the word decay mean
It means to break down into smaller pieces
The hungry fish ate the plankton in the ocean
hungry
What are nurdles
small pieces of plastic that are used as raw material for other plastics
If a turtle consumes and jellyfish, what does he do to it?
He eats it
A group of living organisms that interact with eachother is called an
ecosystem