Plastic Pollution
Marine Biologist
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Marine Biologist
As the Marine Biologist for your team, your focus will be to educate your audience on all the different ways that plastic pollution, large and small, impacts the animals in marine environments. Answer the following questions for your team:
* What types of organisms are impacted by plastic?
* What are the various ways that plastic pollution impacts marine organisms?
* Explain the concepts of bioaccumulation and biomagnification (work with the microplastics expert on this one).
* What is being done to help fix this problem?
Detailed instructions for each expert can be found by clicking the links below:
These videos explain the connection between toxins in the environment and the microplastics. This will help you answer the bioaccumulation and biomagnification questions.
