lainey
9/13/2018 04:28:44 pm
if you really think about it people can really live without plastic. No person really needs it meetal, wood, cardbord,
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Lauren
9/13/2018 04:52:17 pm
At enrichment I watched this video where there is a bucket that makes the trash go into the bucket because of the current. It is called the SeaBin.
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Lauren
9/13/2018 04:55:19 pm
Something I learned was that the bigger garbage patch is near California and the smaller one is near Kuroshio.
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Joey g
9/13/2018 06:41:34 pm
I think we need to stop dumping garbage into the Pacific Ocean because animals are eating then the animals die and they get eaten then the animal how ate it will die because the plastic from one goes into a nother and the cycle gose on and on
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Ashley
9/17/2018 01:26:53 pm
I read in this other article, that there are over 405 dead zones world wide. This enhances the problem even more, because it means, not only is there this huge problem concerning farmers, fishermen, consumers, and aquatic life. It's happening all over the world, too! Something must be done to stop this soon.
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Ashley
9/17/2018 02:11:51 pm
I thought this was a great video. They address the problem very well, so obviously I learned something. Her are a few things I found out about! One, gyres, which are caused by global winds, are massive rotating ocean currents found around the world. Specifically, the North Pacific Gyre, houses the GP squared. Two, the GP squared, is actually made up of two garbage patches in the North Pacific Garbage Patch, but they are considered one, because of a 6,000 mile subtropical convergence zone binding the two together. Three, the GP squared was discovered in 1997, not so long ago, by a racing boat captain named Charles Moore. Four, 80% of the ocean's trash is plastic, and the reason it's such a huge number, is because it's piling up, since plastic takes a long time to decompose. This leads me to the last thing, number five. Plastic actually photo-degrades. Therefore, it can enter and strongly disrupt the food chain, which frequently leads up to US! So it's like a chain! It starts with careless humans throwing trash into the water, and ends with us consuming unhealthy fish that have consumed trash and many chemicals along with it. I hope a solution is found the fix this problem soon, or else, who knows? This might not end well if something isn't done to stop it.
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Neiko
9/19/2018 02:36:37 pm
In the picture I can see two garbage patches, one on the coast of California, and one on the coast of Kuroshio. I also see a subtropical convergence zone in the middle of the two garbage patches. The Subtropical Convergence (STC) is the frontal zone which separates the subantarctic waters of the West Wind Drift from the subtropical waters in the north. These two water masses differ in their biological as well as chemical and physical properties.
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Dvd [AKA] David
9/26/2018 02:38:26 pm
I think that we should take better care of the Earth
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