How much do you know about plastic pollution?

Test your knowledge by trying this

quiz. If you get stuck, all the information you need to answer the questions is in our
book Let’s Investigate Plastic Pollution. Enjoy the quiz!

1: What is plastic made of? 8: Which of these statements 14: What are nurdles?
a) Plants is true? a) A type of pasta
b) Crushed up rock and glue a) There are no plastic bottles in b) Tiny plastic pellets
c) Oil, coal, gas, and chemicals the ocean. c) Small flying insects
b) Plastic bottles on beaches get
2: How much plastic rubbish goes washed out to sea. 15: Why do turtles and other ocean
into the ocean every minute? c) People on boats never drop litter in animals eat plastic bags?
a) Enough to fill a trash can the sea. a) Because they taste nice.
b) Enough to fill a bathtub b) Because they think they are
c) Enough to fill a dumper truck 9: What happens to a plastic bottle jellyfish.
if you bury it in the ground? c) Because they can’t see very well
3: What is a landfill? a) It biodegrades and disappears. underwater.
a) A place where vegetables grow b) It breaks up into tiny pieces but
b) A place where plastic is made doesn’t disappear. 16: Which of these plastic objects is
c) A place where rubbish is buried in c) It turns into rock. NOT single-use?
the ground a) A plastic bag
10: How long will a plastic bottle b) A potato chip bag
4: Which of these statements take to break up in the ocean? c) A lunchbox
is true? a) 25 years
a) Biodegradable means an object b) 100 years 17: How many seabirds have plastic
will be around forever. c) 450 years in their stomachs?
b) Biodegradable objects break a) 9 out of 10
down, or rot. 11: Which of these statements b) None
c) Plastic is biodegradable. is true? c) 4 out of 10
a) A plastic bag that’s dropped in the
5: Which of these statements street may end up in the ocean. 18: What is a garbage patch?
is false? b) Plastic litter from cities never gets a) A place in a garden where rubbish
a) Plastic can be recycled again into the ocean. is kept
and again. c) Plastic is too heavy to be blown b) A giant floating mass of plastic
b) Paper is made from trees. into the sea. rubbish in the ocean
c) Glass can be recycled again c) A square of plastic
and again. 12: What are tiny pieces of plastic in
the ocean called? 19: How long will a plastic bag take
6: What are single-use plastics? a) Teenyplastics to break up in the ocean?
a) Objects that are made to be used b) Microplastics a) 20 years
once and thrown away c) Miniplastics b) 6 months
b) Objects that are made to be used c) 5 years
by just one person 13: Which of these things should
c) Objects that can be used again never be flushed down 20: How many tonnes of plastic
and again the toilet? enters the world’s oceans
a) Pee and poop each year?
7: Which of these objects are b) Toilet paper and pee a) 14.5 million tons
single-use? c) Wipes and cotton swabs b) 5 million tons
a) Lego building blocks c) 100 tons
b) Plastic straws
c) Plastic flip-flops

20: a 18: b 16: c 14: b 12: b 10: c 8: b 6: a 4: b 2: c

19: a 17: a 15: b 13: c 11: a 9: b 7: b 5: a 3: c 1: c
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