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THE ASTORIAN • SATURDAY, APRIL 3, 2021
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ol. 37, No. 19
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Great
Ocean
orldwide, people are trying to
figure out how to make and
use less plastic, but wouldn’t it be
great if we could get rid of the
plastic trash that is already here?
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A Discovery in Spain
A Spanish biologist, Frederica Bertocchini, was ___________ bees. When she cleaned out her
beehives, she made a remarkable discovery.
Uh oh! Hungry waxworms have chewed
through some of the words in this article.
Can you replace the missing words?
She found waxworms in the _________. That
wasn’t unusual because waxworms, which are the
larvae of wax moths, like to eat the ___________
and the wax. This can destroy a beehive
but might be good for the _________.
Find the
bee that’s
different!
When Bertocchini took out the
waxworms from the beehives, she
put them into a plastic _______. Later,
when she checked the bag, she ___________
the worms had eaten __________ in it.
How many
waxworms can you
find on this page?
Scientists have been feeding caterpillars called waxworms the kind of
plastics used in shopping bags. They discovered that just 60 little worms
can eat more than 30 square centimeters (1 square foot) in a week.
Scientists think that large numbers of these hungry worms could be put to
work to eat plastic waste.
How much is 5 trillion?
One research study
estimated that the 5.25
trillion pieces of plastic
floating in our oceans would
be enough to stretch to the
moon and back twice.
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Plastic pollution is a big problem. Scientists
believe there are more than 5 TRILLION pieces
of plastic in the Earth’s oceans
alone.
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Could these _______ plastic-eating worms
help scientists _______ the world’s growing
plastic waste crisis?
Worms that eat plastic?
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Help this waxworm find the plastic bag.
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One Problem
There is a lot of interest
in using lots of worms
to eat the tons and tons
of plastic waste in the
world. But there is one
problem slowing this
down. Worm poop!
THE COMBINED WEIGHT OF PLASTIC
WASTE IN THE OCEAN IS GREATER
THAN THAT OF:
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In just days, they could
eat what would otherwise
take hundreds of years to
decompose (rot), helping
solve Earth’s big plastic
pollution problem.
How much does all this plastic weigh? Circle every
other letter to discover the shocking answer!
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Headline
Mix Up
Unfortunately, when wax
worms eat plastic, their
poop becomes toxic or
poisonous. Scientists are
working hard to solve this
problem. If you grow up to become a scientist,
maybe you could solve it!
Cut out 10 words
from different
headlines
throughout the
newspaper. Create
a story using one
clipped word per
sentence. Share
your story with
someone.
Standards Link: Research:
Use the newspaper to locate
information.
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SORTING IT ALL OUT: Draw a line from each item to the correct bin where it belongs.
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GLASS
JAR
APPLE
CORE
LEAVES
PIZZA
BOX
Recycling Bin
ALUMINUM
CAN
NEWSPAPER
Landfill Bin
Compost Bin
WAXWORMS
BEEHIVES
TRILLION
PLASTIC
PROBLEM
CLEANED
TRASH
TOXIC
SOLVE
EARTH
HOLES
TWICE
ROT
EAT
BAG
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M S E L O H C E M N
Standards Link: Letter sequencing. Recognize identical
words. Skim and scan reading. Recall spelling patterns.
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about a problem. Are there any scientists
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kind of scientists?
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