In the You Tube search bar, enter Great Pacific Garbage Patch, or Pacific Garbag

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In the You Tube search bar, enter Great Pacific Garbage Patch, or Pacific Garbage Patch, or Ocean Plastic Garbage, and then

survey your results.

A) What makes up most of the garbage?
B) What is the problem or what are the problems with allowing that garbage to accumulate in the ocean?
C) Tie this information into what you have already learned in Oceans of the World. Does the location and composition

and potential hazards of the garbage patch all fall in accord with the information you learned from those other

sources?
D) What is your gut reaction to this information? Are you shocked? Disgusted? Defeated? Determined? Describe how

this information moves you.

Explanation / Answer

Answer:

A) The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is mostly made up of plastic, chemical sludge, debris trapped by North Pacific Gyre.

B) It causes various problems to the marine life and consequently to human life. Sea-turtles and albatrosses are affected directly from consumption of plastic. New generations become unable survive and face threatening of extinction. Other fish species are also got affected from organic pollutants coming from industrial waste and chemical sludge. Human beings eat those fish and they also get affected badly.

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