Ruta 2 Medio Agosto
Ruta 2 Medio Agosto
Ruta 2 Medio Agosto
OA:
OATP : Colaboración
I) According to the reading activity “The Great Garbage Patch”, answer the exercises below.
1. Plastic is everywhere. It’s incredibly useful and our life wouldn’t be the same without it.
Now, you probbly never throw rubbish into the sea, but did you know 10% of all plastic in the world
ends up there? It usually comes from ships, from litter on beaches, the wind carries it from land, and
rivers take it out to the sea.
A) According to the paragraph 1, answer true (t) or false (f), make the false sentences correcto r
else your answer will be consider incorrect. (10 points)
2. In fact, somewhere in the Pacific Ocean there is an enormous area of floating plastic called the Great
Garbage Patch. Nobody knows exactly how big it is, but some people say it’s the size of the USA, it is
the world largest rubbish dump. Why does this happen? The strong ocean currents constantly push
everything into a huge vortex of rubbish that stay in one place. Everything that is made of plastic
(balls, tyres, syringes, toothbrushes, toys, bottle tops, plastic bags,etc) ends up in this huge rubbish patch.
R. Nobody knows how big it is, but some people say it´s of the USA.
3. Charles Moor, the oceanographer who discovered it in 1997, believes it contains 100 million tonnes of
plastic. This plastic is dangerous for marine life because sometimes fish swallow it, birds feed it to their
babies, or animals like sea turtles get trapped in plastic nets. In fact, each year about 1 million sea birds
and 100,000 marine animals die because of plastic.
- Because turtles get trapped - Because sea birds and marine life die.
4. The patch also reduces the amount of microscopic plankton that fish can find to eat. This is because it
contains 3 kilos of plastic for each half kilo of plankton. But the most harmful plastic is invisible,
because oceans waves and sunlight often break up the plastic into tiny pieces. These particles are easily
swallowed, and the carry manmade chemicals, which ge tinto the food chain. “What goes into the
ocean goes into animals and onto your dinner plate’, says Dr Jon Erikson, a marine researcher.
3. Sunlight break up plastic into tiny pieces: los rayos de sol rompe el plástico en pedazos pequeñ
5. The environmentalist David de Rothschild took a 12000 – mile journey across the Pacific Ocean in a boat
made of 12500 recycled plastic bottles called the PLASTIKI. He wanted everyone to know bout the
dangers of plastic and to show practical ways to recycle. We can all do something to help. Use les
plastic, recycle more, and pick up litter.
It is a boat made entirely of recycled bottles, which was used to sail 12,000 miles in the Pacific Ocean.