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There are --------- gyres in the world’s oceans. All gyres are -------- currents

ID: 232369 • Letter: T

Question

There are --------- gyres in the world’s oceans. All gyres are -------- currents which act as a vortex that -------- waters (and anything carried by these waters) in this region. In recent decades, there has been an -------- build-up of wastes (especially plastics that are slow to ----------) in all of the ocean gyres.

Choose from the following list of words and watch the spelling; (note: all of these words will not be used): concentrates, decreased, degrade, dilutes, disperses, downward, five, form, four, horizontal, increased, one, three, two, upward, vertical

Explanation / Answer

a) five

b) horizontal

c) concentrates

d) increased

e) degrade