TRUE/FALSE.
"Every bit of plastic manufactured in the world for the last 50 years or so still remains?"
TRUE
100
Multiple Choice:
Plastic will decompose faster under which circumstance:
A. At the bottom of the cold ocean.
B. Buried with little water, sun, or oxygen.
C. Neither.
C, neither
100
Who is the author of this essay?
Alan Weisman
100
Define: Microbes
A microorganism
200
How many containers are tossed around daily?
639,000
200
Why aren't landfills filling up with plastic?
Ends up in an ocean-fill.
200
In the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" what did Moore find his vessel floating through? Name at least 2 items.
Bottle caps, fish netting, six-pack rings, balloons, sandwich wrappers, limp plastic bags.
200
Define: catamaran
Pg. 570, paragraph 4
A vessel, usually propelled by sail,
300
How many little pellets or "nurdles" were manufacture annually (in pounds)?
Page 572
250 billion
300
How many pounds does one person generate daily that is buried in a landfill?
Page 568
4.5 pounds
300
What animal was found with plastic resin trapped inside their body?
Jellyfish
300
Define: Anaerobic
pg. 574 paragraph 5
A living, active, or occurring in the absence of free oxygen when respiration occurs.
400
By 2005, how much trash was the Pacific Dumping (in miles or what country it was the size of)?
Page 572
10 million square miles of the size of Africa.
400
Two Part Question:
TRUE/FALSE
In 1998, Moore found that there was 12 times as much plankton in the ocean than plastic.
If False, correct sentence.
1. FALSE
2. Six times as much plastic found in the ocean than plankton
400
What happen to trees that were buried in bogs a long time?
Turned into coal and oil.
400
Define: Pulverize
100 extra pt. give type of speech
(V) to reduce to dust or powder, demolish or crush completely.
500
In 1975, The U.S. National Academy of Sciences estimated that all oceangoing vessels, had dumped how many millions of pounds of plastics annually?
8 million
500
1. In the mid-twentieth century what was their "landfill"
2. What happened to the trash in the landfills?
1.The desert.
2. Eventually blew away.
500
What type of business did Moore retire from? (300 pt.)
And in what year (200 pt.)
Wood-Furniture Finishing Business.
500
Define: Photodegrade or explain the process.
pg. 573 paragraph 4
Ultraviolet solar radiation weakens plastic's tensile strength by breaking its long,chain-like polymer molecules into shorter segments, the UV rays snap, then the plastic starts to decompose.