Question

Which line from the passage demonstrates a cause/effect text structure? ( 1 point) Plastics tend to break down, due to heat and sunlight exposure, into small particles known as microplastics. The Netherlands-based organization hired 18 ships to trawl at different spots across the whole patch. In the past, scientists estimated the size of the Great Pacific Garbagematch Oby hopping on a boat and trawling the trash with fine netsnets originally designed for catching plankton Running these nets through the patch, which extends from California to Hawaii was not only laborious it failed to catch big things like bottles and buoys.

Answer 1

The line that demonstrates a cause/effect text structure is: "Plastics tend to break down, due to heat and sunlight exposure, into small particles known as microplastics."

This sentence shows the cause (heat and sunlight exposure) and the effect (the breakdown of plastics into microplastics).