Negative Impacts
I am vast and blue, home to creatures big and small.
But humans fill me with what I cannot consume at all.
Who am I?
The ocean?
I am big and blue, but people make me dirty.
Some groups are helping me get clean again.
Name 3 that helps me.
MIARNE LFEI
WHAT IS MARINE LIFE
I drift like a snack in the open sea,
Looking like something a dolphin would see.
They think I’m a jellyfish, soft and light—
But eating me can cause them harm or fright.
Plastic bags
I’m a vast, colourful home beneath the sea,
Full of coral and life as far as you can see.
Pollution and warming waters are harming me—
What famous reef could I be?
Great Barrier Reef
I’m spilled by ships or drilled from the ground,
When I leak in the ocean, disaster is found.
I coat animals and darken the sea.
Who am I?
Oil leaks?
I’m thrown away but never gone,
I drift for years, just floating on.
Fish may eat me by mistake—
What am I that humans make?
Plastic
MICORPLTASICS
WHAT IS MICRO PLASTICS
I mistake drifting plastic for my favourite snack.
It floats like jelly in my watery world.
My kind is known for long journeys across oceans,
but human waste is making those journeys dangerous.
Sea turtles?
I am vast, cold, and once thought untouched.
My surface shifts with ice and silence,
but what travels into warmer waters still reaches me.
What enters me lingers slowly, affecting life that moves between frozen edges.
Who am I
Arctic Ocean?
You cannot see me with your eye,
But in the water, I still lie.
Too much of me can make fish die.
Ocean Pollution
We drop our trash and walk on by,
It travels far, though we don’t try.
Rain and wind help it along.
What are we doing thats so wrong?
Littering
RWEAT PNLLUTINOO
WHAT IS WATER POLLUTION
I am small but rule the sea in great numbers.
I breathe through gills and learn in schools.
When the water fills with poison or trash,
I am often the first to suffer.
Fish
I am shallow compared to giants,
yet I support one of the richest coastal ecosystems.
I receive runoff from densely populated lands,
and what enters me often settles rather than escapes. You all try to save me but instead add to my mess. While you think that it is less.
Gulf of Mexico?
I have no voice, yet I tell a story,
Of careless hands and human worry.
I gather where the oceans turn,
And grow as lessons people learn.
Waste or Garbage
We wash and clean, it seems okay,
But tiny bits go down the drain.
They reach the sea without a sound.
Who am I?
Sending harmful things down the drains
SLEA RTUT
WHAT IS SEA TURTLES
I speak in sounds that travel farther than sight.
My world is built on sound, pressure, and memory.
But new layers now float between what I send and what returns,
and the ocean no longer answers me the same way.
Whales?
I am a shallow underwater forest, not made of trees but kelp.
I shelter many species and provide food and protection.
When water quality drops, my growth weakens and habitats collapse.
Kelp forests?
I do not exist in one place, yet I am everywhere at once.
I begin as something useful, then fracture into invisibility.
I outlive generations without ever dying.
I am swallowed without consent, yet I feed nothing back.
Microplastics
We know the cost, yet still proceed,
Not by force, but choice and need.
Awareness grows, yet action fades.
What are we doing under these shades?
Ignoring the consequences of littering/ pollution
NIOPRPOMRE IPDOSLAS
WHAT IS IMPROPER DISPOSAL
I do not belong to the ocean, yet I rely on it.
What I once landed on naturally now has become harsh.
My journey between air and water has become weighted with remnants
that were never part of my design.
Who am I ?
Seabirds
I am a boundary line where river energy meets ocean force.
Sediments, waste, and chemicals gather here first
before spreading outward or sinking below.
River Deltas?