"Great Pacific Garbage Patch" by Nsikan Akpan . . . The Great Pacific Garbage Patch stretches across 617,000 square miles of the northern Pacific Ocean, based on their survey, and plastics make up 99.9 percent of the trash in the patch. And while 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic might seem extraordinary, oceanographer Laurent Lebreton of The Ocean Cleanup foundation said the composition of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is the noteworthy takeaway. While microplastics made up 94 percent of the total number of pieces of plastic in the patch, they only accounted for 8 percent of the mass. That means the overwhelming bulk of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is large pieces of trash. Most are hard plastics — think plastic food containers, bottles, lids, buckets, ropes and lots of fishing nets. Fishing nets made up nearly half the plastic discovered. The large and medium-sized plastics bigger than 2 inches, known as megaplastics and macroplastics, comprised more than 75 percent of the total mass of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Based on inscriptions, most of the plastic collected in the study originated in Asia — namely China and Japan — but that makes sense given the North Pacific Current runs west to east. The oldest piece of plastic they found dated to 1977. © NewsHour Productions LLC. All Rights Reserved. Question Use the excerpt from the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch weighs more than 43,000 cars and is much larger than we thought” article to answer the question. Which matter is left uncertain by the excerpt? (1 point) Responses which types of materials make up the garbage patch which types of materials make up the garbage patch where most of the trash is manufactured where most of the trash is manufactured how the plastics are finding their way into the ocean how the plastics are finding their way into the ocean how much area the garbage patch covers

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The matter left uncertain by the excerpt is how the plastics are finding their way into the ocean. The passage discusses the composition of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the origins of the plastic based on inscriptions, and the size of the patch, but it does not explain the processes or mechanisms through which the plastics enter the ocean.

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"Great Pacific Garbage Patch" by Nsikan Akpan . . . The Great Pacific Garbage Patch stretches across 617,000 square miles of the northern Pacific Ocean, based on their survey, and plastics make up 99.9 percent of the trash in the patch. And while 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic might seem extraordinary, oceanographer Laurent Lebreton of The Ocean Cleanup foundation said the composition of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is the noteworthy takeaway. While microplastics made up 94 percent of the total number of pieces of plastic in the patch, they only accounted for 8 percent of the mass. That means the overwhelming bulk of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is large pieces of trash. Most are hard plastics — think plastic food containers, bottles, lids, buckets, ropes and lots of fishing nets. Fishing nets made up nearly half the plastic discovered. The large and medium-sized plastics bigger than 2 inches, known as megaplastics and macroplastics, comprised more than 75 percent of the total mass of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Based on inscriptions, most of the plastic collected in the study originated in Asia — namely China and Japan — but that makes sense given the North Pacific Current runs west to east. The oldest piece of plastic they found dated to 1977. © NewsHour Productions LLC. All Rights Reserved. Question Use the excerpt from the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch weighs more than 43,000 cars and is much larger than we thought” article to answer the question. Which matter is left uncertain by the excerpt? (1 point) Responses which types of materials make up the garbage patch which types of materials make up the garbage patch where most of the trash is manufactured where most of the trash is manufactured how the plastics are finding their way into the ocean how the plastics are finding their way into the ocean how much area the garbage patch covers

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The matter left uncertain by the excerpt is how the plastics are finding their way into the ocean. The passage discusses the composition of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the origins of the plastic based on inscriptions, and the size of the patch, but it does not explain the processes or mechanisms through which the plastics enter the ocean.

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The matter left uncertain by the excerpt is **how the plastics are finding their way into the ocean**. The passage discusses the composition of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the origins of the plastic based on inscriptions, and the size of the patch, but it does not explain the processes or mechanisms through which the plastics enter the ocean.