Eng 1 – Reading
Before Reading the text:
Write two questions you have about The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Answer your questions
What is the Great pacific Garbage Patch?
How big do some scientists believe it is?
How much do they believe it weighs?
How many seabirds die each year from rubbish in the ocean?
How much plastic does the world produce each year? How much of that ends up in the ocean?
How can we prevent the garbage patch from getting bigger?
Another name for this text could be
An Environmental Disaster, How to dispose of Plastic or How to Recycle
The purpose of the text is to entertain, persuade or inform?
How big do some scientists believe it is?
twice the size of France
How much do they believe it weighs?
3.5 million tonnes
6)How can we prevent the garbage patch from getting bigger?we stop people from dumping rubbish in the ocean and dump rubbish in the dumps and stop making as much plastic. It will save animals life🐬
How many seabirds die each year from rubbish in the ocean?
a million seabirds a year
How much plastic does the world produce each year?
9 million tonnes of plastic
How much of that ends up in the ocean?
10%
7)Another name for this text could be? Save our beautiful oceans💧
8)An Environmental Disaster, How to dispose of Plastic or How to Recycle?Build dumps
How can we prevent the garbage patch from getting bigger?
we can stop it by putting our rubbish in the bin and in recycling bins and if you see a piece of rubbish pick it up and put in the bin
9)The purpose of the text is to explain what is happening to our oceans and how it’s happening.📖
1. what type of garbage is thrown in the patch?
2. how does that effect marine kife and birds?
1. the great pacific garbage patch is a place where pople dump there rubbish and then it can kill marine life and birds.
2. some scientists believe that it is the sixe of France!
3. they believe it weighs 3.5 million tones
4. 1 million sea birds die each year
Before Questions
1 How much garbage can be used to recycle
2 How much animals die from garbage in the sea
What is the Great pacific Garbage Patch?
Garbage pathch in the Pacific Ocean
How big do some scientists believe it is?
They believe it is twice the size of France
How much do they believe it weighs?
3.5 million toms
How many seabirds die each year from rubbish in the ocean?
a million or more
How much plastic does the world produce each year? How much of that ends up in the ocean?
A}
more then 90 million tons
B}
about 10 per cent
How can we prevent the garbage patch from getting bigger?
if every1 does a better job of recycling
Another name could be for the text is: An Environmental Disaster
What is the Great pacific Garbage Patch?
it is a giant patch of garbage on the pacific ocean that collects rubbish that if dumped into reviers storm drains etc
How big do some scientists believe it is?
scientists estimate that it is bigger then Italy
How big do some scientists believe it is?
its size is unknown
How many seabirds die each year from rubbish in the ocean?
Over 1 million seabirds
How much do they believe it weighs?
3.5 million tons
How much plastic does the world produce each year? How much of that ends up in the ocean?
260 million tons of plastic each year. Almost a third of that plastic … so much ends up … plastic in the ocean …
How can we prevent the garbage patch from getting bigger?
We can’t clean it up. It’s just too big we could but as of now we don’t have the technology and the money
Another name for this text could be
how to recycle
The purpose of the text is to
inform