Studying the mysterious plastisphere at sea By Los Angeles Times, adapted by Newsela staff
Sea Education Association's brigantine Robert C. Seamans sails 10 miles offshore from Point Loma in San Diego to conduct research into a new ecosystem known as the plastisphere, which refers to the effect discarded plastic is having on the oceans, on Sept. 14, 2013. Photo: Bob Chamberlin/Los Angeles Times/MCT
Blog Post Assignment:
What are microbes?
What is a plastisphere?
Do you think the plastisphere is a safe place to live? Explain with 3-4 examples from the text. Provide supporting details for your examples. Remember to RACE.
I think it is about plastic and the plastic in the ocean is polluting the ocean. The chemicals (plastic) are affecting the ocean and the animals living in it are dying by it.
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Consle
4/22/2014 02:23:12 am
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Alyssa Savianeso
4/22/2014 02:32:08 am
my prediction is correct because it talked about plastic and metors
Esther ^-^
4/21/2014 11:59:11 pm
I think this article is going to be about ships and creatures in the ocean and ocean life. my prediction came mostly from the title and a walk through the story and the headings of each part of the article.
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Esther ^-^
4/22/2014 12:41:01 am
some of my prediction was right and the other part of my prediction was wrong.
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Esther K
4/22/2014 02:22:17 am
I was wrong that the article was going to be about ships and I was right about the article by saying that it was going to be about creatures in the ocean and that its going to be about ocean life.
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Andrew
4/22/2014 12:00:32 am
I think this arcticle is about that ships find something that can kill all nature in the world. I will become sprised to notice that.
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Andrew
4/22/2014 12:40:26 am
My pridiction was wrong, here is the real one. The plastiphere is created by all the plastic stuff people throw out. A backtera is a kind of mircobe. There are tiny creatures called organisms then they start to grow these bits.
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Sadie
4/22/2014 12:00:46 am
My prediction is that this person is a doctor helping a child that is illness
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ALISA :D
4/22/2014 12:01:14 am
I predict that its going to be about how we can save the ocean and how it got polluted
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Kelly W
4/22/2014 12:01:59 am
I predit that they are going to tell about the fish,ocean,and the boats.
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hdaniel mota V
4/22/2014 12:02:08 am
My prediction is that ther r going to c facts and stories and I red a book about something simaler they found thhe sunkin tiatanic.
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Alper Can
4/22/2014 12:02:17 am
I think that this article is going to be about a ship .
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Alper Can
4/22/2014 12:40:26 am
My prediction is wrong .
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Dren Sapunxhiu
4/22/2014 12:02:29 am
My prediction is that the article will be about ways people harm and rescue animals exposed to plastic.
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Dren Sapunxhiu
4/22/2014 02:26:55 am
My prediction was wrong. The article really is about the plastisphere.
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Alyssa Savianeso
4/22/2014 12:02:37 am
My prediction is this story is going to be about plastic bottles and other plastic falling into the ocean off the ship.Also I think it caused a lot of damage
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J@me$
4/22/2014 12:02:49 am
I predict the article will be about plastic chemicals polluting the ocean.
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Jhon
4/22/2014 12:02:59 am
I think that this article will be about how humans are affecting ocean life
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Jhon
4/22/2014 12:39:06 am
I was parrtaly correct because it talked about the platisshere
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Yamilex
4/22/2014 12:03:16 am
i think that plastic is a pollution.
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Yamilex
4/22/2014 12:38:26 am
my perdicton was wrong
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Amy:]
4/22/2014 12:03:34 am
I think that this article is going to be about things I the sea that hasn't been discovered and things that are interesting.Also I think that they are going to about what happened in the past ,like pirate ships back then.
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AmyJ.
4/22/2014 12:41:20 am
I was wrong about the article because I .
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AmyJ.
4/22/2014 02:21:25 am
Wrote that it was going to be about the past and about the pirates that used to have pirate ships.Also the ones who are most famous.But the story was about the garbage.
George A
4/22/2014 12:07:15 am
I predict that the article is about there's plastic in the ocean and its killing animals. I think its killing animals because of the pollution from the plastic.
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DANA
4/22/2014 12:08:08 am
I think that this article is about people that are trashing oceans too much and the cause of that is animals that swim by get caught with fishnets that wasn't for them which might cause extinction.
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DANA
4/22/2014 12:39:21 am
My prediction was half right since their was more to it. I was right about garbage in the sea and about it being dangerouse to the animals living in the sea.
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Eliamlee LOL *_* :I
4/22/2014 12:08:19 am
I think the article is going to be about that the animals in the ocean are getting scratches and wrappers on them and blood all over them and they are going to die. That the people are throwing garbage in the ocean water and the animals are going to be stuck in the wrapper forever and the people have to rescue the animals in the ocean water.
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eliamlee
4/22/2014 02:21:18 am
My prediction was wrong about the story and some of it was part of the article.
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Alisa P
4/22/2014 02:23:05 am
I loved your comment because you told me that have to rescue animals and thats important.
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Victor
4/22/2014 12:11:03 am
I think it's pollution.
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victor
4/22/2014 02:28:34 am
My prediction was right because I read the article.
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juliana G
4/22/2014 12:16:04 am
L think this article is going to be about the sea how did it got pollution
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Andrew
4/22/2014 12:18:23 am
This artcicle is about these little pieces of plastic grow mircobes which can go on animals and infect them and get liver damage. When crabs eat barnacles they get liver damage, which can kill the crabs.
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Brandon Atiencia -_-
4/22/2014 12:20:36 am
microbes are little things that are invisiple to the human eye it can kill things and people they are very very very dangerous
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Andrew
4/22/2014 12:21:50 am
Mircobes are little germs that cause you to become sick. A playsphere is not a safe place to be because that is where the plastic is. A platsphere is a area of the ocen.
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Jhon
4/22/2014 12:27:29 am
Micorbes are tiny picesc that contain bacteria that crabs feed on which cause them to starve or choke to death platisherer Is a manmade layer in the ocean that is made of manmade waste like plastic bottles toys and tooth brushes.
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Jhon
4/22/2014 12:32:41 am
I think that the platisshere is bad because it killing crabs and lobsters and I love to eat lobsters they taste so good!!!!!!
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Yamilex
4/22/2014 12:29:34 am
a microbe is an example of bactria. a plastisphere is a human created ocean ecosystem. yes because in the text it said that they are helping the animal from not getting sick . I wish I can help them !!!!! it also says that they built a ecosystem to help animals
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Sadie K
4/22/2014 12:32:12 am
Microbes is any living thing so small it can't be seen without microscope. Plastisphere is a tiny pieces that are made up of plastisphere. Plastisphere is not a safe place to live because they grow bacteria.People throw things in the water too. Also when the debris washes in the ocean it breaks down to little pieces.
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hdanielmota V
4/22/2014 12:35:20 am
Microbs are little germs that make you sick . The PLASITISPHER is a plasti comutity that is for the water thouh.
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George A
4/22/2014 12:35:30 am
I think it would be bad to live in plastisphere because there would be pollution. I feel bad for the animals because they are dieing from pollution. The animals weren't able to escape the pollution. Microbes are small bacteria that are hard to see with a telescope and under water.
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George A
4/22/2014 12:42:11 am
My prediction was right because in the article they said that animals were dieing because people were throwing plastic in the ocean. That's why the animals were dieng from pollution.
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Sadie K
4/22/2014 12:37:13 am
My prediction is false because the article was really about a scientist started to study bacteria and microbes also the plastisphere ocean.I said that a doctor was helping a baby.
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AMYJ.
4/22/2014 12:37:24 am
A microbe is kind of bacteria.A platisherer is a human created ocean eycosytem.I don't think that a platisherer is a safe place because a lot of garbage is there.Alot of animals in the ocean are getting hurt from the garbage.Reptiles are not getting hurt because they don't live in the ocean.
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Alper Can
4/22/2014 12:38:36 am
A misobes is a bacteria . A platisichere is something mysterious . I say no because scientist say that that place is very bad . I say no because the ocean is very dirty plastic . I say no because bacterias are bad .
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Esther K
4/22/2014 12:38:59 am
Microbes are tiny pieces of trash and bacteria grow on them witch the animals in the sea eat. A plastisphere is a human created marine ecosystem.I think the plastisphere is a bad place to live because people found a seal tangled in a plastic net and when barnecals eat the bacteriad plastic then the crabs eat the barnecals and then the crabs have the bacteria then the crabs predator eats the crab and the predator gets eaten by its own predator and so on . Also that will go in the food web in the bacteria will go in the food web and will kill a lot of animals in the food web.
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Jhon
4/22/2014 02:21:39 am
nice long paragragh ester a lot of details
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Kelly W
4/22/2014 12:41:13 am
Microbes are small it can't be seen without a microscope.A plastisphere is bits of what scientists are calling.
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James
4/22/2014 12:41:41 am
Microbes are tiny things that live life. Plastispheres are human created ocean-ecosystem. I think it is not a safe place to live because it is garbage that people throw in the ocean
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Sadie K
4/22/2014 02:21:46 am
I agree James that there is not a safe place to live because they throw garbage in the ocean.
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DANA
4/22/2014 12:41:53 am
Microbes are tiny pieces in plastic bags.
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Brandon Atiencia -_-
4/22/2014 12:42:03 am
the plasisphere is it starts with bits of broken plastic no bigger than grains of salt
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Alyssa Savianeso
4/22/2014 12:42:20 am
A mirobe is any living thing so small it cant be seen without a misrscope.A plasitiohrpre is a human created ocean eccosteym.no it will not be safe place because little tiny pieces of glass in the ocean and then they come togethger
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Eliam Lee
4/22/2014 12:42:51 am
A microbe is a kind of bacteria but really small you have to use a microscope. A plastisphere is a human-created ocean ecosystem. I think it is a good place to live in a plastisphere. I think is good because they can cure the animals from all the scratches they made. They can take off the wrappers and plastics off of the animals. When the animals are ready to go to the ocean they bring the animals to the ocean and they let go and the animal is free and feels better and they feel good with there family again. The scientist are helping the animals to live and survive in the ocean and free in the wild.
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juliana G
4/22/2014 12:43:09 am
Microbes are tiny thing that make you sick . The plastisphere is a community created by man that drop plastic in to the sea
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Alisa P
4/22/2014 02:15:44 am
Microbes are plastic debris into finer bits. The plastisphere is something scientists are only now beginning to understand. It is a sort of human-created marine ecosystem. I do not think plastisphere is a safe place to live because some of these tiny creatures may be disease-causing bacteria. Also harmful chemicals may be spreading throughout the ocean.
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Alisa P
4/22/2014 02:26:16 am
I did well on answering all the bullets but i didn`t do well on is not giving more evidence
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Andrew
4/22/2014 02:17:54 am
My precdition was wrong because I thought it was about ships. But it was about the sea and how there were morcobes in the sea.
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Alper Can
4/22/2014 02:19:37 am
I agree with you Andrew because you were so close with your prediction .
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4/22/2014 02:22:55 am
I agree
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dana
4/22/2014 02:23:56 am
A PLASTISPHERE IS a human made eco system.
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Dren Sapunxhiu
4/22/2014 02:24:31 am
Microbes are microorganism that improve or harm the health of animals, plants, and people. Microbes are also known as germs and bacteria. Some are good, others are bad.
A plastisphere is a marine ecosystem that is partly made up of plastic particles. Animals eat the plants or animals with the microbes and build hazardous substances, which kill them. Plastispheres are man-made.
The plastisphere is harmful because, the plastic creates harmful substances in an animal's body. The plastic also contains poisonous chemicals that damage the food chain. Plus, the plastic and chemicals can make species endangered or even EXTINCT. Both substances are water pollutants. When creatures in the plastisphere break down polyethylene and polypropylene, harmful chemicals enter the ocean.
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James
4/22/2014 02:25:03 am
My prediction is wrong because the chemicals don't pollute the ocean.
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hdanielmota V
4/22/2014 02:25:29 am
Microbs are little tiny particals that you cant see trouh a micro scope because it is very very very .VERY small.
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Alper Can
4/22/2014 02:25:35 am
Exellent Dren
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Alper Can
4/22/2014 02:26:16 am
I agree with you James .
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Brandon Atiencia -_-
4/22/2014 02:28:10 am
the palastisphere is not a safe a place to live because scientist say there was chemicals obsorbed by all the plastic absorbed
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Alper Can
4/22/2014 02:29:07 am
I agree with you Dren because because that is evidence .