KIDS QUIZ
OCEAN CREATURES
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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because they live in very deep trenches
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because plastic is floating on the ocean
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because they do not have enough food
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because plastic was found in their bellies
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Detailed explanation-1: -Plastics pollution has a direct and deadly effect on wildlife. Thousands of seabirds and sea turtles, seals and other marine mammals are killed each year after ingesting plastic or getting entangled in it.
Detailed explanation-2: -The findings in the Royal Society Open Science paper “illustrates that microplastic contaminants occur in the very deepest reaches of the oceans". Researchers from the University of Newcastle detected the presence of ingested microplastics in the guts of creatures called Lysianassoidea amphipods.
Detailed explanation-3: -Plastics in our waterways threaten our water quality and marine food sources. Microplastics make their way up the food chain and threaten human health (See Effects on Human Health). As ocean plastic pollution continues to grow these resulting problems are only going to worsen unless we take action.
Detailed explanation-4: -Plastic in an animal’s gut can prevent food digestion and can lead to a very slow and painful death. As plastic bags can take up to 1, 000 years to break down, once an animal dies and decays after ingesting plastic, the plastic is then freed back into the marine environment to carry on killing other wildlife.