To adjust a camera to make a person or thing being photographed appear larger or closer.
Zoom In
Name a way to decrease plastic in the ocean
Reduce
Reuse
Recycle
Describe how plastic travels in the ocean from one continent to another.
Ocean currents and gyres carry the plastic around the globe.
A whirlpool that is thousands of miles wide
gyre
a fact or piece of data from a study of a large quantity of numerical data.
Statistics
What is virgin plastic?
plastic that has never been used before
Describe a way in which plastic disrupts the food chain.
Animals eat plastic, mistaking it for their food. They may become ill and die. They may pass the plastic along to other animals further up the food chain.
Animals (such as insects) may travel on plastic "islands" to new habitats and disrupt the food chain by becoming invasive in new areas.
The presence of a substance or thing that has harmful or poisonous effects to the environment
pollution
visual images produced by computer processing
Graphics
What is social plastic?
Plastic collected by people and reused
Why is the center of a gyre not a good place to be in a sailboat.
It is completely calm, with very little wind or current, and can strand boats that do not have engines.
Extremely small pieces of plastic debris in the environment resulting from the disposal and breakdown of consumer products and industrial waste.
microplastic
On a television show, movie, or ad, the spoken words of a person that you cannot see.
Voice-Over/Narration
What is wrong about the concept of a floating island of trash?
Trash and plastic in the ocean is much more insidious and dangerous. It is everywhere in the ocean, often in very small pieces.
What is the raw material needed to make most plastic?
Petroleum
Long, chain-shaped molecule that is the basis of both natural and human-made substances, including plastics
polymer
A meeting of people, especially for consultation.
Interview
What is Plastic Bank?
A social plastic recycling system that uses plastic as a currency.
How does plastic degrade in the ocean?
Sun's ultraviolet rays
Salt water
Waves
A lump of coral, shells, wood, volcanic rock, sand, and plastic that has been fused together by heat from bonfires on the beach
plastiglomerate