More Unit 5 Vocabulary quizzes
Useful Vocabulary for the presentation – click here
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
A patch is an area that is different from the area around it.
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is an area of plastic rubbish. Because the light breaks plastic into tiny, often microscopic particles, the garbage patch is not visible from satellites or planes, not even divers in the area.
Watch the videos and do the exercises that follow.
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Some facts about plastic pollution
- There are about 46,000 pieces of plastic per 2.5 square kilometres of ocean and 80% of this plastic rubbish probably comes from the land.
- Light can break plastic down into tiny pieces, but the plastic never really disappears.
- Plastic that sinks to the bottom of the ocean gets no light, so it never breaks down.
- Over 100,000 marine mammals and one million seabirds die each year as a result of the plastic in the ocean.
Now read the text on page 46 in your book again and answer the following questions
- Which sentence tells us that Moore was surprised by what he saw on his way home?
- What are toothbrushes and bottles examples of?
- Where are the two garbage patches that we know about?
- Which sentence in paragraph 4 tells us that the garbage patches are growing?
- How might people be affected by the plastic?
- What are two things people can do to keep the garbage patches from growing even bigger?
Environment word cards – click here
Wordsearch Crossword
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5 ways to save the planet video & quiz – click here
Environment exercises – click here
Environment exercises 2 – click here
Environment Games by the British Council – click here
More environmental activities – click here
Environment Songs
Earth song – Michael Jackson – click here for the quiz
Wake up America – Miley Cyrus – click here for the quiz
Down by the river – Albert Hammond – click here for the quiz
Mother Nature Needs Us – PJ Grand Band – click here for the quiz
