Plastic, ahoy! : investigating the great Pacific garbage patch
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Plastic, ahoy! : investigating the great Pacific garbage patch
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Physical Description:
48 pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 28 cm.
General Note:
Includes index.
Summary:
A team of scientists explore the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, where millions of pieces of plastic have gathered, having drifted there from rivers, beaches, and ocean traffic all over the world.
Contents:
Permission to come aboard, captain? -- Garbage, here we come! -- Braving the gyre -- Miriam's hitchhikers -- Darcy follows phytoplankton -- Chelsea's plastic puzzle -- Charting the answers.
Audience/Lexile:
900 L
Reading Program:
ACCELERATED READER, INTEREST= GRADES 5-8 BOOK LEVEL= 6.1 POINTS= 1 SD QUIZ 164144 ENGLISH NON-FICTION.
Publication Information:
Minneapolis : Millbrook Press, 2014.
Subject:
| Marine pollution -- Juvenile literature. |
| Marine pollution -- Pacific Ocean -- Juvenile literature. |
| Plastic marine debris -- Environmental aspects -- Juvenile literature. |
| Plastic scrap -- Environmental aspects -- Juvenile literature. |
| Waste disposal in the ocean -- Juvenile literature. |
| Marine environment pollution |
| Marine water pollution |
| Ocean pollution |
| Offshore water pollution |
| Sea pollution |
| Seawater -- Pollution |
| Debris, Marine plastic |
| Debris, Plastic marine |
| Marine plastic debris |
| Debris, Plastic |
| Plastic debris |
| Plastic trash |
| Plastic waste |
| Plastic wastes |
| Scrap plastic |
| Secondary plastics |
| Trash, Plastic |
| Waste plastic |
| Deepwater dumpsites |
| Dumping of wastes in the ocean |
| Ocean disposal of wastes |
| Ocean dumping |
| Sea disposal of wastes |
| Sea dumping |
| Waste disposal at sea |
| Waste dumping in the ocean |
SAILS ISBN:
9781467712835