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Evaluating Writing Assessment Step 1: Choose an Article Find an online article to analyze on a topic that interests you. Please include the article and link below. URL Link https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/marine-pollution Copy/Paste Text of Article Marine pollution is a growing problem in today’s world. Our ocean is being flooded with two main types of pollution: chemicals and trash. Chemical contamination, or nutrient pollution, is concerning for health, environmental, and economic reasons. This type of pollution occurs when human activities, notably the use of fertilizer on farms, lead to the runoff of chemicals into waterways that ultimately flow into the ocean. The increased concentration of chemicals, such as nitrogen and phosphorus, in the coastal ocean promotes the growth of algal blooms, which can be toxic to wildlife and harmful to humans. The negative effects on health and the environment caused by algal blooms hurt local fishing and tourism industries. Marine trash encompasses all manufactured products—most of them plastic—that end up in the ocean. Littering, storm winds, and poor waste management all contribute to the accumulation of this debris, 80 percent of which comes from sources on land. Common types of marine debris include various plastic items like shopping bags and beverage bottles, along with cigarette butts, bottle caps, food wrappers, and fishing gear. Plastic waste is particularly problematic as a pollutant because it is so long-lasting. Plastic items can take hundreds of years to decompose. This trash poses dangers to both humans and animals. Fish become tangled and injured in Unless Otherwise Noted All Content © 2022 Florida Virtual School. FlexPoint Education Cloud™ is a trademark of Florida Virtual School.

the debris, and some animals mistake items like plastic bags for food and eat them. Small organisms feed on tiny bits of broken- down plastic, called microplastic, and absorb the chemicals from the plastic into their tissues. Microplastics are less than five millimeters (0.2 inches) in diameter and have been detected in a range of marine species, including plankton and whales. When small organisms that consume microplastics are eaten by larger animals, the toxic chemicals then become part of their tissues. In this way, the microplastic pollution migrates up the food chain, eventually becoming part of the food that humans eat. Solutions for marine pollution include prevention and cleanup. Disposable and single-use plastic is abundantly used in today’s society, from shopping bags to shipping packaging to plastic bottles. Changing society’s approach to plastic use will be a long and economically challenging process. Cleanup, in contrast, may be impossible for some items. Many types of debris(including some plastics) do not float, so they are lost deep in the ocean. Plastics that do float tend to collect in large “patches” in ocean gyres. The Pacific Garbage Patch is one example of such a collection, with plastics and microplastics floating on and below the surface of swirling ocean currents between California and Hawaii in an area of about 1.6 million square kilometers (617,763 square miles), although its size is not fixed. These patches are less like islands of trash and, as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says, more like flecks of microplastic pepper swirling around an ocean soup. Even some promising solutions are inadequate for combating marine pollution. So-called “biodegradable” plastics often break down only at Unless Otherwise Noted All Content © 2022 Florida Virtual School. FlexPoint Education Cloud™ is a trademark of Florida Virtual School.

temperatures higher than will ever be reached in the ocean. Nonetheless, many countries are taking action. According to a 2018 report from the United Nations, more than sixty countries have enacted regulations to limit or ban the use of disposable plastic items. Step 2: Write a Summary Read your article, then write a 2-3 sentence summary of what you read. The ocean has become flooded with chemicals and trash or in other words pollutants. These chemicals cause algal blooms which Is toxic to humans and animals, this can also hurt the fishing and tourism industries. Another thing is the trash in the ocean, mainly plastic, it’s getting to the point where animals are consuming microplastic and becoming part of their tissue which means it can later become part of the food humans eat. Step 3: Graphic Organizer Fill out the graphic organizer below with a list of the different items you discovered. Make sure your answers are in complete sentences and use include quotes from the article to support your findings. Central Idea The central idea is how the ocean is getting polluted and how it is affecting the animals and us humans. “ Marine pollution is a growing problem in today’s world. ” Organization The way this article is organized is actually very effective. It introduces the main problem and then includes how it is a problem and what is causing it. After it introduces a way to fix the problem so others can help stop it. Rhetoric Logos, an example of the article using logos could be : “ This trash poses dangers to both humans and animals. Fish become tangled and injured in the debris, and some animals mistake items like plastic bags for food and eat them. Small organisms feed on tiny bits of broken-down plastic, called microplastic, and absorb the chemicals from the plastic into their tissues.” Another example could be “Solutions for marine pollution include prevention and cleanup. Disposable and single-use plastic is abundantly used in today’s society, from shopping bags to shipping packaging to plastic bottles. Changing society’s approach to plastic use will be a long and economically challenging process. ” Figurative This article uses simile, here is an example: “ These patches are less like Unless Otherwise Noted All Content © 2022 Florida Virtual School. FlexPoint Education Cloud™ is a trademark of Florida Virtual School.

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