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All About Plastic Pollution!
The Big Connectors
100

This word means "having a limit".

Finite

100

What is microplastic?

A very small or tiny piece of plastic.

100

Which of the following is a relative pronoun: Who, And, But, Or?

Who

200

 A small piece or part of a material.

Fragment

200

Name the large circular ocean current where plastic can collect.

Gyre

200

Which word is NOT a preposition: Under, On, What, Above?

What

300

This word describes something made from unnatural substances rather than natural ones.

Synthetic

300

What is one reason people choose plastic over other materials?

Affordable/Moldable

300

What are “location” words that tell where something is?

Prepositions

400

The word that means “threw something away” or “put it in the trash.”

Disposed

400

 Plastic is called non-biodegradable. What does non-biodegradable mean?

It will not naturally break down into harmless materials over time.

400

Give three examples of prepositions

Under, On, Above, Below

500

A word meaning “something that encourages you to do something”

Incentive

500

Put these five steps in the correct order starting from when a bottle is dropped on the beach: plastic gets caught in the current, plastic breaks apart from the sun, a bottle is dropped on the beach, plastic moves to the center of the gyre, plastic leaves to the current. 

1) A bottle is dropped on the beach

 2) Plastic gets caught in the current of the waves

3) The plastic leaves to the current

 4) The plastic breaks apart from the sun

 5) Plastic moves to the center of the gyre.

3,  2,  5,  4,  1

500

Write one sentence that uses a conjunction and a preposition together.

Example: We cleaned the beach, and we put trash in the bin near the boardwalk