Question

1. what is one household product containing nanoplasfics? soap
2. draw how nanoplasfics might end up in the ocean.
3. how is the south pacific plastic vortex different from those in the north?
4. plastics help to transport marine organisms, like algae.

a. true b. false

1. every ______ of ocean water contains many thousands of different microbe species.

a. ounce b. pound
c. gram d. pint

1. only ______ of these microbe species are found on plastics.

a. 2 b. 3
c. 4 d. 5

1. the north pacific garbage patch is believed to contain about ______ million metric tons of plastic.

a. 1 b. 10
c. 100 d. 1,000

1. who is taking responsibility for the plastic trash vortices? no one, there is nothing happening to fix this problem

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what other interesting information did you learn about plastics in the ocean?

Explanation:

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Plastics can act as a medium for marine organisms like algae to attach and be transported across different oceanic regions. This is a known phenomenon in marine ecology related to plastic pollution. So the statement is true.

In oceanography and marine microbiology, the unit "gram" is a more appropriate metric unit to measure the volume of ocean water when considering the concentration of microbe species. Ounce, pound, and pint are either imperial units or not as commonly used in scientific measurements of this nature for microbial counts.

Research in marine microbiology related to plastics shows that only a small fraction, specifically around 2 of the microbe species found in ocean water are found on plastics. This is based on studies of microbial colonization on plastic debris in the ocean.

Answer:

a. True

Question 21