A Plastic Ocean
Toxins
Old Stuff
6th Grade Review
100

Turtles eat this aquatic species.

Jellyfish

100

The root word "poly" as in polyester means.

Many

100

Major Black New York neighborhood where a Renaissance occured.

Harlem

100

The author's attitude.

Tone

200

Not islands of trash, but closer to this food people eat.

Soup

200

Marine life exists here.

Water

200

The definition of Renaissance.

Rebirth

200

The figurative language technique meaning to exaggerate greatly.

Hyperbole

300

Island where people cook food with burnt plastic, famous for it's water brand.

Fiji

300

What plastic releases or collects.

Toxins

300

The name of the time where millions of Black folks moved to the North.

The Great Migration

300

The name of the boy who harnessed the wind.

William Kamkwamba

400

Large, circular current(s) in the oceans.

Gyre(s)

400

The system that toxins damage leading to problems reproducing.

Endocrine

400

Writer of the poem, Mother to Son.

Langston Hughes

400

Flint, Michigan switched away from this clean water river.

Detroit

500

Found this during the seabird necropsy. (Be specific, what and where?)

Plastic in the birds' stomaches

500

The "real" name for BPA

Bisphenol A

500

The famous venue where musicians, performers and comedians entertained Black audiences in Harlem.

The Cotton Club

500

This famous Native American is often considered one of the best athletes ever.

Jim Thorpe