SCIENCE
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
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Question
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Turtles mistake clear plastic bags for jellyfish, ingest them, and die of intestinal blockage.
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Sea mammals, such as seals, become tangled in clear plastic fishing lines and drown.
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All of the above.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The most visible impacts of plastic debris are the ingestion, suffocation and entanglement of hundreds of marine species. Marine wildlife such as seabirds, whales, fish and turtles mistake plastic waste for prey; most then die of starvation as their stomachs become filled with plastic.
Detailed explanation-2: -Biomagnification is the accumulation of pollutants at successive levels of the food chain.
Detailed explanation-3: -Which of the following is a true statement about surface water? It makes up less than 1 percent of all water on Earth. What is the relationship between groundwater and surface water? Surface water percolates through the soil to form groundwater.
Detailed explanation-4: -Heavy metals in the coastal groundwater mainly originated from anthropogenic activities and groundwater salinization according to principal component analysis.