While all of the listed events can significantly affect ocean ecosystems, plastic pollution is currently having a particularly widespread and lasting impact on the interconnected ocean ecosystem. Plastic pollution affects marine life through ingestion and entanglement, disrupts habitats, and contributes to the degradation of ocean health over time. It also influences food webs and can have consequences for human health and economies that rely on healthy ocean ecosystems.
Currently, which event is having the greatest effect on the entire interconnected ocean ecosystem?(1 point)
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plastic pollution
plastic pollution
oil drilling
oil drilling
tsunami
tsunami
hurricane
hurricane
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