Boyan Slat Ocean Clean-up

Boyan Slat says that we are in the ____________ age.

• Bronze Age

• Stone Age

• Plastic Age

What does plastic do to the food chain?

• Immediately kills the animals that eat it.

• Nothing, plastic doesn't break down

• Poisons the food chain with the chemicals used in plastic

Why don't you see red plastic particles in the ocean?

• Red dissolves in the ocean

• Organisms think they are food

• red plastic all sinks

What did Boyan's dive partner mistake for jellyfish?

• plastic bags

• clear fish

• megalodon

What do most people prefer to do instead of cleaning up the ocean?

• Add more plastic, who's going to notice?

• prevent the trash from getting there to begin with- prevention

• hope that Aquaman will take care of it, like in the movie.

What did Boyan Slat find when he used a fine mesh net in the ocean?

• ghost nets

• He found less plastic than was once thought to be out there

• microplastics that make up 40 times the amount of plastic thought to be out there

How much plastic is estimated to be out in the ocean?

• 1 billion tons

• 7.25 million tons

• 20 tons

How many Eiffel Towers is that?

• 1000

• 10,000

• 100,000

• 100

What is the solution to the amount of energy required for the ocean clean-up? (SELECT ALL)

• Hamsters on wheel

• ocean currents

• solar energy

• wave energy

What is the Interceptor?

• Ocean clean-up barge

• Beach clean-up barge

• River clean-up barge