Earth's Oceans
Earth's Water
Keep it Moving!
Plastic Pollution
FINAL JEOPARDY
100
Letter A on this map represents this ocean
What is
Pacific Ocean
100
The percentage of Earth's water that is fresh water?
What is
3%?
100
True or False:
Ocean water is constantly moving.
What is
TRUE?
100
A gyre filled with litter and plastic debris in the Pacific ocean
What is
Pacific Garbage Patch
100
The name of the beach in Hawaii covered in plastic pollution that we learned about at the beginning of this unit
What is
Kamilo Beach
200
The smallest ocean
What is
the Arctic Ocean?
200
The percentage of Earth's surface covered by water
What is
around 70%?
200
A slow moving sheet of ice is
What is
a glacier?
200
TRUE or FALSE
We can't know how much litter and plastic pollution are in the garbage patches
What is
TRUE.
Because ocean water is always moving and the litter and micro-plastics drift down deep in the ocean-not just on the surface
200
The two students who kept a blog about their field trip to Hawaii
Who is
Marc & Marguerite ?
300
Letter E on this map represents
What is
Atlantic Ocean?
300
The approximate percent of Earth's water that is ocean water
What is
97%?
300
A gyre is
What is
a large system of circulating (rotating) currents?
There are 5 major gyres across our oceans.
300
Two negative effects of plastic pollution in our oceans are
What is
1. Harmful to marine life and their habitats (eating it and starving or getting caught in nets, etc)
2. Micro-plastics are eaten and may eventually end up in foods we eat
3. Other reasonable responses accepted by fellow Jeopardy contestants
300
Based on what we learned in this unit, explain what this image represents and what it tells us about Earth's oceans.
What is
In 1992 a cargo ship encountered bad weather and a cargo ship full of rubber ducks (28,000) were lost overboard. These ducks were carried all over the world on ocean currents. This tells us that the Earth's oceans are ALL CONNECTED.
400
The letter C on this map represents
What is
Indian Ocean?
400
Most of Earth's fresh water is trapped in this form
What is
frozen form as glaciers and ice sheets?
400
Currents are formed by
What is
differences in temperature and wind.
Extra 100 points if you mentioned differences in salinity!
400
Two advantages to the floating barrier solution we read about (and watched a video about) in class are
What is
1. It is solar powered
2. It cleans up rivers too (where plastic enters the oceans)
3. Other reasonable responses based on the video or articles read in class
400
Other than recycling, 2 changes the average person can make to lower the amount of plastic pollution produced are
1. Buy goods in glass or compostable paper instead of plastic packaged items
2. Reusable bags
3. Create something new using plastic (jewelry, art project, etc)
4. Other reasonable changes approved by fellow Jeopardy contestants.
500
The deepest and largest ocean
What is
Pacific Ocean?
500
From largest amount to smallest, the amounts of water on Earth are
What is
saltwater, solid fresh water (glaciers/ice sheets), liquid fresh water (ground water, rivers, lakes, streams)?
500
Tides are caused by
What is
the gravitational pull between the earth, sun, and moon.
500
Choose ONE solution discussed in class (wax worms, plastic eating bacteria, wax worms, plastic to fuel) and give one advantage and one disadvantage to this solution
What is
Varies depending on solution-use articles shared as resource if answer is questionable.
500
The 19 year old inventor of the floating barrier solution
Who is
Boyan Slat?