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Loggerhead Marinelife Center's Coastal Classroom
Marine Debris: Microplastics Quiz
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What species of sea turtle is Geo Jr.?
Green sea turtle
Loggerhead sea turtle
Leatherback sea turtle
Kemp's Ridley sea turtle
Hawksbill sea turtle
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Geo Jr. is a green sea turtle!
Green sea turtles get their
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(Image credit: Loggerhead Marinelife Center)
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Why is Geo Jr. in the Sea Turtle Hospital at Loggerhead Marinelife Center?
Geo Jr. was entangled in fishing line
Geo Jr. has been preyed on by a shark
Geo Jr. was unintentionally struck by a boat propeller
Geo Jr. has a broken bone and ate discarded trash in the ocean
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Geo Jr. has a broken flipper bone & ate discarded trash in the ocean. It arrived at Loggerhead Marinelife Center on March 2, 2020
While fishing line entanglement, boat propeller wounds and shark interactions all effect sea turtles, Geo Jr. was found washed up on the beach with a broken flipper bone. Hit Next to see what Geo Jr. also ate plastic trash in the ocean that worsened the condition.
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How are disposable plastics harmful to the ocean and marine life?
Animals often mistake plastics as food when in the ocean as trash
Plastics give off harmful chemicals into the water, disrupting natural ocean chemistry
Animals can become entangled in plastics, such as 6-pack rings for single-use bottles
Large single-use plastic items break down into smaller pieces and threaten animals big and small
All of the above
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What is one way you can help reduce your plastic use?
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All of the above.
Single-use plastics such as bottles, cutlery, straws and bags often end up as trash in the ocean and can leech chemicals, entangle marine life, be ingested by animals and break down into smaller pieces to cause further damage.
(Image credit: Loggerhead Marinelife Center)
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What are microplastics?
Small pieces of plastic material
A type of sea turtle rehabilitation treatment
Large pieces of plastic material
A natural material grown from the ground
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Microplastics are small pieces of
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Large plastic items break down into smaller plastic pieces that are harmful for marine life and the ocean. Animals can also take small bites out of larger plastic items, like the bottle pictured, and get sick from the smaller pieces.
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Does plastic trash ever disappear from the ocean or environment?
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Plastic never biodegrades.
It breaks down into smaller pieces over hundreds to thousands of years, but is not naturally decomposed by living organisms.
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Which one of these photos contains a disposable plastic item(s)?
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