Garbage Patches

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is also called

• a nice place to go on vacation

• a floating garbage dump

• the Pacific trash vortex

• the Pacific trash volcano

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Why is the Pacific trash vortex almost impossible to measure?

• Pieces of debris sink or move around

• We can't find the garbage patch

• The garbage patch is disappearing

• There is no garbage patch, its made up.

What details is the image showing you? (pick two)

• That there is more than one garbage patch.

• That garbage patches are bad.

• That garbage patches are clean.

• Where the garbage patches are in the ocean.

Tiny pieces of plastic that don't break down or biodegrade are called

• microphones

• microscopes

• micro-bacteria

• microplastics

What point does the author make about garbage patches?

• Although garbage patches are found all around the world, most people have trouble finding them.

• Garbage patches are more likely to form in oceans that are near large countries with many people.

• Although garbage patches are full of different types of trash, most of the garbage is food that can be eaten easily by animals.

• Garbage patches are so large and have so many small pieces of trash that people can be in the middle of one without realizing it.

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What are the main ideas of the text?

• Garbage patches are found in many oceans around the world. These areas of garbage mainly contain plastics and old fishing gear.

• Garbage patches are formed when water creates whirlpools in oceans. The garbage stretches from the surface down to the ocean floor.

• Garbage patches are areas of the ocean that are full of trash and harmful materials. Scientists are working to develop ideas to remove the garbage.

• Garbage patches are sections of the ocean with large amounts of floating trash. This garbage is harmful to ocean life and must be addressed in some way.

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How can we stop the garbage from growing?

• Take care of your trash and throw it out the right way.

• Remember that land and sea are both connected.

• Reduce the garbage you produce and recycle plastics.

• All of the above

Where is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?

• San Francisco, California

• The North Pacific Gyre

• North America

• The Pacific Rim

How many pieces of garbage are in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?

• 1.8 trillion pieces

• 80 million pieces

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At first the sailor who discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch saw that there were __________________tons of plastic floating in the water

• 1 million

• 2 million

• 3 million

• 4 tmillion

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