Causes of Ocean Pollution
What kind of trash is most often found in the ocean and comes from bottles and bags?
What is trash?
What sea animal often mistakes plastic bags for jellyfish and eats them by accident?
What is a sea turtle?
What “R” word means using something again instead of throwing it away?
What is reuse?
What kind of trash is the biggest problem in the ocean?
What is plastic?
What simple thing can you do to protect ocean animals—especially at the beach?
What is pick up trash?
What kind of water carries chemicals and trash from streets into the ocean when it rains?
What is stormwater?
What can happen to birds or fish when they get tangled in plastic rings or nets?
What is they can get hurt or die?
What can you do with a plastic bottle instead of throwing it in the trash?
What is recycle it?
Where does most of the trash in the ocean come from—boats or land?
What is land?
What should we do instead of using plastic straws and bags?
What is use reusable ones?
What type of pollution happens when ships accidentally release oil into the ocean?
What is an oil spill?
What tiny bits of plastic do small ocean creatures accidentally eat?
What are microplastics?
What is one thing you can do at the beach to help keep the ocean clean?
What is pick up trash?
What happens when sea animals eat plastic thinking it’s food?
What is they get sick or die?
Why should we learn about the ocean in school?
What is so we can help protect it?
What harmful thing do factories sometimes dump into rivers that leads to ocean pollution?
What are chemicals?
How does pollution affect animals’ homes in coral reefs?
What is it can damage or destroy them?
What kind of bag should you bring to the store instead of using plastic ones?
What is a reusable bag?
What can we do to stop plastic from reaching the ocean?
What is recycle and throw trash in the right bin?
What is it called when people around the world work together to protect the ocean?
What is international cooperation?
What is the name of the large area in the Pacific Ocean filled with floating plastic waste?
What is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?
What happens when poisonous chemicals build up in fish and then humans eat the fish?
What is people can get sick?
What can schools and communities organize to clean up polluted shorelines?
What are beach clean-ups?
What is the name of the goal that asks us to stop polluting the ocean and protect marine life?
What is Life Below Water (SDG 14)?
What is one job you can have when you grow up to help protect the ocean?
What is a marine biologist (or ocean scientist)?