Fish
__of the 28 fish stocks are overfished.
A. 20
B. 15
C. 13
D. I don't know
What is B.15?
The largest ocean on the planet.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
How long does it take for a plastic water bottle to break down?
a. 5 years
b. 50 years
c. Hundreds of years
What is c. hundreds of years?
What is Cashes Ledge?
A marine sanctuary 80 miles off the coast of Massachusetts.
Gov. Maura Healey signed an executive order last Thursday 9/21/23: Massachusetts is the first state to ban the purchase of single-use plastic bottles by state agencies. True or False?
What is true?
What do Toothed Whales have that Baleen Whales don't?
What are teeth?
The oceans have heated up to 1.5 degrees F since 2001. True or False?
What is False and 1901?
How many million tons of plastic are floating in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?
a. 85,100
b. 27,500
c. 44,000
What is a. 85,100?
Takeout containers made from polystyrene are recyclable: True/False?
What is false?
What can you do to help decrease plastic pollution?
What is:
- Use reusable bags, bottles, and cups
- Join the MASSPIRG campaign to ban single-use plastics
What percent of the world's marine fish stocks are fully exploited/depleted?
a. 40%
b. 90%
c. 67%
What is b. 90%?
Where can unrecylable plastics be found nationwide?
What is oceans; drinking water; inside of fish?
______ Marine animals die from plastic every year.
A. 33 billion
B. 20 million
C. 1 million
D. 15 billion
What is C.1 million?
What is 30 by 30 vision?
President Biden's America the Beautiful agenda.
President Biden wishes to protect __% of our land and water by ____.
What is 30 and 2030?
Plastics be consumed by humans if they eat fish: True/False?
What is true?
How large is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?
a. 1.6 million square miles
b. 4.8 million square miles
c. 2.2 million square miles
What is a. 1.6 million square miles?
33 billion pounds of plastic enter the oceans every year. True or False?
What is true?
How many metric tons of plastic and polystyrene ends up in the ocean each year?
a. 2 million
b. 15 million
c. 8 million
What is 15 million metric tons?
What is the Better Bottle Bill?
What is a bill that updates recycling programs to accept plastic beverage containers that didn't exist back in the 1980s? It also makes recycling easier and raises the $ reimbursement from 5 cents to 10 cents.