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Did you know that over a lifetime, the American population throws away nearly 694 plastic bottles per second?
1.Americans throw away .......plastic bottlesper second
a).694
b)964
c)496
That’s 60 million a day. Over time, as plastic ages, it breaks apart into tiny grains, called “mermaid tears”.
2.Plastics breaks apart into ........ ........ called "mermaid tears"
a)tiny grains
b)small pieces
c)small balls
Much of this ends up in oceans, and mostly it is still plastic. These pieces make their way into the food chain and can poison or kill wildlife. Some areas of the Pacific Ocean contain six parts of plastic to one part of plankton!
3.The Pacific is dirty.. It has six part of plastic to one part of plankton
a)True
b)False
The world’s largest trash “landfill” isn’t on land – it’s in the Pacific Ocean. The so-called “Great Pacific Garbage Patch” covers an estimated five million square miles of ocean waters.
4.The Great Pacific Garbage Patch covers .........square miles of ocean water
a) four million
b)five million
c)two million
That’s the size of the United States, Mexico, and Central America combined! The trash is carried and trapped by a system of surface currents called the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre.
5.The Great garbage patch is the size of.....
a)the United States
B) Mexico
c)the United States,Mexico and Central America
A huge 80 percent of the trash is plastic, carried from the shores of Asia and the Americas.
6.The trash is carried from
a)Asia
b)America
c)Asia and America
Preserving the planet is important. That’s why David de Rothschild, a National Geographic Visiting Fellow, led a dangerous voyage through this very spot in 2010.
7.Preserving planet is...
a)very important
b)not important
c)dangerous
His goal was to sail from the United States to Australia on the “Plastiki”, a raft made from plastic bottles. Along the way, he reported on eco-issues. “
8.David sailed to the United States on....
a)a ship
b)plastic bottles raft
c)boat
Saving the planet,” said David, “is going to be one of this century’s greatest adventures.”Attempting to sail 8,000 miles on a plastic raft was next to impossible.
9.David made .. miles
a)2000
b)8000
c)4000
For David, that was the point. He pushed his limits in order to inspire people to challenge and rethink their own future.
10.For David it was a.....
a) challenge
b)future
c)destiny
11.“Great Pacific Garbage Patch” is a patch of plastic bottles of 8000miles
a)True
b)False
12.. He pushed his limits in order to inspire people to challenge and rethink their own future.
a)True
b)False
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