16 Questions
What did Captain Charles Moore discover while sailing from Hawaii to California in 1997?
A steady stream of plastics bobbing in the ocean
What did Captain Charles Moore compare the plastics he noticed to?
A trail of breadcrumbs like Hansel and Gretel leading him home
What did Captain Charles Moore find using a net system to sample the surface of the ocean?
Six times as much plastic as plankton floating in the ocean
What creates the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP)?
Swirling ocean currents known as gyres
How has the GPGP been depicted in the media since its discovery?
As a floating mass of plastic
What is the main cause of plastics being sucked into the GPGP?
Swirling ocean currents
What did Captain Charles Moore discover in 1997?
A murky soup of different sized plastics
Why is it difficult to capture an overview of the garbage patch?
The patch is highly mobile
What was the scale of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch predicted to be in a 2018 study?
79,000 tonnes of ocean plastic in an area of 1.6 million sq km
What did an advertising stunt for World Oceans Day in 2017 contribute to people's perception of the garbage patch?
It portrayed the patch as a solid mass of plastics
What percentage of the estimated 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch are microplastics?
94%
What did the advertising stunt for World Oceans Day call on the United Nations to do?
Rename the GPGP Trash Isles
What percentage of the total mass of garbage found in the GPGP is debris greater than 5cm in size?
75%
How did people perceive the scale of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch after the 2017 advertising stunt for World Oceans Day?
As a solid landmass that could be walked across
What misconception did the advertising stunt for World Oceans Day contribute to?
It played into myths surrounding the GPGP
Why do many misconceptions still exist about remote garbage patches?
Few people have ventured into these areas
Take this quiz to test your knowledge about the discovery of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a massive area in the North Pacific Ocean filled with plastic waste. Learn about Captain Charles Moore's encounter with the patch and its environmental impact.
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