NEET BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a collection of marine debris in the North Pacific Ocean. Marine debris is litter that ends up in oceans, seas, and other large bodies of water. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, also known as the Pacific trash vortex, spans waters from the West Coast of North America to Japan.

Detailed explanation-2: -The most polluted ocean is the Pacific with 2 trillion plastic pieces and one third of the plastic found in this ocean circulates in the North Pacific Gyre. An ocean gyre is a large system of circular ocean currents formed by global wind patterns and forces of the Earth’s rotation.

Detailed explanation-3: -The ocean with the largest amount of plastic is the North Pacific, followed by the Indian Ocean, the North Atlantic, the South Pacific, the South Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea. While you might imagine a scene the equivalent of a floating landfill, actually much of the plastic is barely visible.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Pacific Ocean is the world’s largest ocean, and because it touches several continents, it is exposed to significant amounts of pollution. Garbage and debris floating along its surface are visible reminders of the pollution in the Pacific, but invisible pollutants dwell within its waters as well.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a gyre of plastic debris in the north-central Pacific Ocean. It’s the largest accumulation of plastic in the world.