1. Amy is sitting at the beach and eating a bar of chocolate. What she should do with the wrapper of the chocolate bar?
a) Throw it in the ocean
b) Throw it on the beach
c) Dump it in the dustbin
d) Give someone else to dump it in the ocean
Answer: c) Dump it in the dustbin
Explanation: The ocean should be kept clean and thus trash should be dumped in the dustbin.
2. Ocean and other water sources should be kept clean. Why is it important to keep our oceans clean?
a) To keep the air clean
b) Because sea creatures need a clean and healthy home
c) It's not important to keep the ocean clean
d) Clean water is bad for sea creatures
Answer: b) Because sea creatures need a clean and healthy home
Explanation: We should keep oceans clean because underwater animals need a healthy home.
3. Often we can see beaches full of plastic and other trash. What can happen if we leave trash on the beach?
a) The sand will get dirty
b) Nothing will happen
c) We should dump trash on the beach only
d) Sea creatures might mistake it for food and get sick
Answer: d) Sea creatures might mistake it for food and get sick
Explanation: Sea creatures might mistake trash for food and eat it. It's important to keep our beaches clean for the safety of sea animals.
4. In summer there's generally a lot of crowd on the beaches that often make beach and ocean dirty. Which of the following shows a dirty and polluted ocean?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Answer: a
Explanation: If we continue to make ocean water dirty sea animals can die and water can become dark and polluted.
5. Many animals live underwater which can be called sea creatures. Which of the following animal's life would be most and immediately affected by dirty ocean water that lives underwater?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Answer: b
Explanation: Fishes are underwater or sea creatures. Hence their lives would be most and immediately affected by polluted ocean water.
6. There are many kinds of things around us, some are harmful to the ocean water while some are not. Which of the following would be harmful if it went into the ocean?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Answer: d
Explanation: Plastic bags are very harmful to the ocean water. They make the water dirty and can choke the animals.
7. Emma and her group of friends went to the beach and performed various activities there. Which of the following activities is harmful to the beach?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Answer: a
Explanation: Playing or picking up trash near the beach is not harmful but dumping trash in the ocean is.
8. There are different kinds of bins based on their colour for the separation of different kinds of trash. Which bin is perfect for plastic bottles and wrappers st the beach?
a) Blue bin
b) Yellow bin
c) Green bin
d) Red bin
Answer: a) Blue bin
Explanation: Plastic should be put in blue bins to help keep the beach and oceans clean.
\9. In the story above, the two friends find jellyfish sad. Why Jake the jellyfish was sad?
a) Because ocean water is getting cleaner
b) Because water is colder
c) Because his home is getting destroyed by trash
d) Because kids were playing at the beach
Answer: c) Because his home is getting destroyed by trash
Explanation: Jellyfish was sad because his home was full of plastic and other trash.
10. Lily wants to make oceans cleaner and safer for marine fish. What out of the following she can do to help oceans be safer and cleaner?
a) She can dump trash in the ocean
b) She should use reusable bags instead of plastic ones
c) She should leave the trash at the beach
d) She should promote overfishing
Answer: b) She should use reusable bags instead of plastic ones
Explanation: Using reusable bags instead of plastic ones would reduce the amount of plastic litter generated daily.
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