Currents
A rotating current system that is comprised of the earth's rotation, coupled with currents and prevailing winds
What is gyres?
The size of microplastics
Less than 5 mm
The first trophic level in a food chain
What is primary producer?
What happens when animals ingest plastics?
They can die from starvation because they think they are full.
Give an example of a marine invertebrate.
These are the classes of marine invertebrates. If you have something within these categories, then your team will get the point.
Sponges, Mollusks, Nudibranchs, Cnidirians, Worms, Arthropods, Echinoderms
Most well-known garbage patch
What is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?
What are the 3 ways to minimize plastic pollution?
The amount of energy transferred to each trophic level going up
What is 10%?
A treaty where over 60 countries agreed to work together to reverse climate change
What is the Paris Agreement?
The most well-known human caused of climate change
What is global warming?
The ultimate solution to help reduce the amount of garbage patches around the world
What is prevention?
The kind of plastic that styrofoam is
What is polystyrene?
The trophic level that humans are considered based on our diet
What are secondary consumers?
Name a source of marine litter that we talked about
One of the most sensitive ocean animal that has been severely affected by climate change
What are corals?
The number of garbage patches in the world oceans
What is 8?
What makes plastics so dangerous as a material?
Because we add components/chemicals to it to increase the durability, flexibility, and inflammability.
What happens when a contaminant/toxin increases in concentration over an animal's lifespan
What is bioaccumulation?
This happens when an ocean animal swims into a ghost net
What is entanglement?
What does NOAA stand for?
Because of this natural phenomenon, we have currents and gyres
What is the Coriolis Effect?
The first person to create man-made plastic
Who is Alexander Parkes?
Besides plastics, the other toxin we learned about that can biomagnifies that is common within ocean animals
What is mercury?
The first time they have discovered microplastics in human blood
What is 2021?
The effect when the ocean absorbs excess amount of carbon dioxide
What is ocean acidification?