Five Weird Materials
Another word for "molded".
What is "malleable"?
The captain of the research boat Alguita.
Who is Captain Charles Moore?
It is a chemical also known as Bisphenol A.
What is BPA?
The web-slinging New York crime-fighter Spider-Man.
Who is Peter Parker?
A comparison using the words "like" or "as".
What is a simile?
A form of "new" plastic can be made from these two materials.
What is sugar and carbon dioxide?
They are tiny organisms that provide food for marine animals of all sizes.
What are plankton?
It was the first country that required companies to dispose of their own plastic.
What is Germany?
An ex-con who can get really really small or super super large!
Who is Ant-Man?
A large exaggeration used to make a point.
What is hyperbole?
A new plastic-like material that is 98% water, aka “molecular glue”, aka sodium polyacrylate.
What is "smart mud"?
The famous nickname for the large collection of trash in the ocean.
What is The Great Pacific Garbage Patch?
What is a gyre?
He is a powerful mutant with an adamantium skeleton.
Who is Wolverine?
The use of human characteristics to non-living objects.
What is personification?
Tubular cells located underneath a mushroom's outer shell.
What are mycelia?
Rays from the sun that turn plastic pale and brittle.
What are ultraviolet rays?
It is the % amount of plastic resources that come from land-based sources.
What is 80%?
Who is Drax?
Language that imitates the sound associated with it.
What is Onomatopoeia?
A formerly living material you can make biodegradable "plastic" bags out of.
What are shrimp shells?
The oceanographer helping Captain Moore with his plastic discoveries.
Who is Curtis Ebbesmeyer?
It is the use of plants to purify land and water.
What is Phyoremediation?
A blind lawyer who protects Hell's Kitchen at night.
Who is Daredevil?
A statement that compares two things that are not alike.
What is metaphor?