Ocean Pollution Edition

Bow Seat Ocean Awareness Programs

Art & Pop CultureChemistryHuman

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10 Points

Name the nearest ocean

The Ocean and You

20 Points

From where you are sitting right now, the direction of

the nearest ocean.

(point to it, you only get 1 chance)

The Ocean and You

30 Points

This is how much oxygen in the atmosphere is produced

by phytoplankton in the oceans.

The Ocean and You

This map shows plankton blooms (light blue) in the Atlantic Ocean)

40 Points12 humans have walked on this

place, where only 3 humans been to Challenger Deep, the deepest part of

the ocean.

The Ocean and You

These are photos from the only two successful manned missions to the deepest point in the ocean – Deepsea Challenger (left) and Trieste (right)

50 Points

This is something in this room that came from the

ocean.

The Ocean and You

10 PointsA squishy invertebrate that looks like a plastic bag, which tricks sea turtles into eating marine debris by

mistake.

Animals

20 Points

These animals are most at risk during an oil spill because they float on the water’s surface, just

like the oil.

Animals

30 PointsThe way dolphins and whales communicate and find

food, which becomes difficult if there is too much noise created by ships or other human activities.

Animals

40 PointsThe name of this fish, which is originally from the Indian/Pacific Ocean but has made it to

the Atlantic Ocean and is becoming invasive.

Animals

50 PointsName three shell-forming animals in the

ocean.

(These animals are at risk because the ocean’s increasing acidity makes it harder to

form shells)

Animals

(here’s a giveaway)

10 Points

Three items thrown away by humans which can “entangle”

marine animals.

Human Activities

20 PointsThis human compound is helpful for farming, but using

too much can cause nutrients to flow downstream, trigger a plankton bloom, and create an oxygen-less

“dead zone.”

Human Activities

30 Points

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is made up mostly of this size of

plastic debris.

Human Activities

Macroplastics

Microplasticsor

40 Points

Three ways that trash ends up in the ocean.

Human Activities

50 PointsThe number of major ocean “gyres”.(Gyres are large systems of swirling ocean currents which collect

marine pollution in their centers. Below is a picture of one of them…)

Human Activities

10 Points

Number of years it takes for most plastics to completely break down.

(hint, it’s a trick question)

Chemistry

Chemistry 20 Points

The chemical in the atmosphere that is primarily responsible for the

climate change, which also is responsible for ocean acidification.

30 PointsName of the Japanese nuclear power plant that had a meltdown in 2013 and released radioactive particles into the Pacific Ocean.

Chemistry

Chemistry

40 PointsName one way to clean up a

large oil spill

Chemistry

50 Points

Name for when seawater has very

low oxygen content, and

therefore cannot support life.

10 Points

A marine predator famous for its multiple rows of teeth, which was also featured in

Katy Perry’s Superbowl XLIX Halftime Show performance.

Art & Pop Culture

20 Points

Name the animal in this sculpture.

Street artists secretly added a six-pack ring to this sculpture to raise awareness about plastic

pollution.

Art & Pop Culture

30 Points

This rubbery trash item that often washes up on beaches, which artists in Kenya make into sculptures like this.

(hint, you wear these)

Art & Pop Culture

40 Points

The director of Avatar, Terminator, and Titanic, and also

creator of Deepsea Challenger which

reached the deepest point in the ocean in

2012.

Art & Pop Culture

50 PointsThe age of artist Dafne

Murillo, who painted this for the Ocean

Awareness Student Contest in 2014.

Art & Pop Culture

10 Points

It was legal to dump any kind of waste into the ocean

until what decade?

The 1940’sThe 1970’sThe 2000’s