key words
what is the most toxic thing in the water right now?
pollution
What is the leading cause of pollution in our oceans?
Plastic production
How much of the plastic found in the ocean comes from land-based plastic?
What is 80%
Where is the farthest place a piece of plastic has traveled from North America?
What is Antarctica?
This animal has been found dead with soda can plastic holders around its neck.
What is a seal?
How can we stop pollution?
what is waste management
What is the term for recycled products that don't actually get recycled, but are thrown into the ocean?
What is plastic dumping.
What is the ratio of plastic to plankton in the ocean?
What is 1:2 ratio.
This is a place in Australia where organochlorines were found in the water from factory waste. Now the factories here have been shut down and the water has been restored.
What is Emu Bay?
These animals have been found sick and dead from eating microplastics and other plastic found in the ocean.
What is a sea turtle.
What are extremely small pieces of plastic in the environment resulting from the disposal and breakdown of larger plastics ?
microplastics
What is the problem with plastic, as opposed to cardboard and paper?
It is indestructible and never leaves the planet.
How many pieces of plastic are afloat in the ocean world wide?
What is about 5 trillion pieces of plastic
This is a place in North Wales where Shearwater birds were found dead because their stomachs were full of plastic.
Where is Lord Howe Island?
This animal was found dead with 50 pounds of plastic in her stomach.
What is a blue whale?
What are toxins that comes from factories that kills marine life in the surrounding area around the factory?
organochlorines
What is a major disease that is caused by plastic in the ocean?
What is cancer?
How many pounds of plastic does the average human use each year?
What is about 300 pounds of plastic per year
Which continent dumps the most plastic into the ocean?
What is Asia?
These birds that live on Lord Howe Island were found dead because they had 244 pieces of oil, plastic and microplastics in their stomachs.
What are Shearwater birds?
What is a chemical that comes from plastic and is released into the ocean which can cause disease like cancer?
Estrogenic chemicals
What happens when a sea animal, such as plankton, seat turtle, seal or fish sees a piece of plastic?
What is it confuses it for food and eats it!
How many pieces of plastic go into the ocean each day?
What is about 8 million pieces of plastic each day!
This is a remote area in Asia where children have to search for plastic to get money, people are dying from cancer and the flu, and women are not able to have children because of the amount of plastic in the water.
What is the Burrow Pit?
These are the main sea creatures in the water, whose internal organs are being destroyed by plastic.
Who are fish?