"We are Teens eTwinning Project" Team 4

( Halime Erva, Beytullah, Sude, Busenur, Bilge, Nursena, Galanton, Elif.)

We are Team 4 and our project subject is 7th Continent. While learning and writing about this matter, we will use eBook.

This is International Team 4 ebook. Enjoy it:)

Prepared by BeytullahP.

CONTENT

Environment Dictionary.......................................................4

What is 7th Continent?.........................................................6

Environment Puzzle............................................................12

Some Works about 7th Continent.....................................14

Movies..................................................................................16

Books....................................................................................18

Useful Websites...................................................................23

Cartoons...............................................................................25

Some Good Saying About Nature.....................................30

Our Competition About 7th Continent Delegate............31

Pictures About Competition..............................................38

Award Ceremony................................................................40

Answer key for puzzle........................................................43

ENVIRONMENT DICTIONARY

Waste: an unnecessary wrong use of money, substances, time, energy, abilities etc;

Pollution: damage caused to water, air, etc. by harmful substances or waste

Damage: to harm or spoil something

Ecosystem: all the living things in an area and the way they affect each other and the environment

Garbage: waste material or unwanted things that you throw away

Contaminant: a substance that makes something less pure or makes it poisonous

Conservation: the protection of plants and animals, nature areas, and interesting and important structures and buildings, especially from the damaging effects of human activity

(prepared by Elif K.)

What is 7th Continent ?

The world’s largest waste dumpsites are far from our eyes and they are thousands of kilometres from French territory. They are called the seventh continent because these polluted areas are as large as a continent. It is estimated that 80 to 120 tonnes of waste ends up at sea every minute; a large part of this waste is plastic.

We commonly talk about a plastic continent but these are not land on which we could walk. The name of the 7th continent comes from the fact that the areas of plastic pollution accumulation are as vast as continents. The largest area is located in the North Pacific and is nearly 6 times the size of France or 3.4 million square kilometres. 

Marine debris can prevent algae and plankton, the photosynthetic producers in the marine food web, from receiving enough sunlight to create nutrients. When these tiny organisms are threatened, the entire food web is put at risk—first-order consumers that eat the plankton, such as jellies; second-order consumers that eat the jellies, such as turtles; and apex predators such as sharks.

https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/great-pacific-garbage-patch/

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch sits near the surface of the ocean. Dense debris can sink centimeters or even several meters beneath the surface, making the vortex’s area nearly impossible to measure.

https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/great-pacific-garbage-patch/

The marine debris of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch can devastate marine life in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre. The stomach contents of this unfortunate albatross include plastic marine debris fed to the chick by its parents.

https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/great-pacific-garbage-patch/

Turtles, too, are put in danger by marine debris. Turtles can easily be entangled in discarded fishing nets or mistake the gelatinous texture of plastic for a jelly, their favorite food.

https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/great-pacific-garbage-patch/

prepared by Elif K.

Now, Let's check if you've learned the vocabulary about environment :) Just a joke, Enjoy the puzzle (prepared by Buse N.)

1)Unnecessary wrong use of money, substances, time, energy, abilities etc;

2) A substance that makes something less pure or makes it poisonous

3) Damage caused to water, air, etc. by harmful substances or waste

4) All the living things in an area and the way they affect each other and the environment

5) Can be kneaded by hand, suitable for shaping can take the desired shape.

6) To harm or spoil something

7) Waste material or unwanted things that you throw away

8) The protection of plants and animals, nature areas, and interesting and important structures and buildings, especially from the damaging effects of human activity

(source: https://www.instagram.com/netzerocompany/)

prepared by Beytullah P.

Movies about Environmental Issues

(prepared by Nursena A.) 

"Soylent Green"

Soylent Green is a 1973 American dystopian thriller film directed

by Richard Fleischer and

starring Chartlon Heston and

Leigh Taylor-Young. It describes

the destruction of all natural

resources due to air pollution

and global warming in New York

City

"Wall-E"

Wall-E is a 3D animated film made in 2008. The time is a very distant future.

A machine responsible for cleaning a waste-covered Earth meets another robot and falls in love with her. Together, they set out on a journey that will alter the fate of mankind.

"The Day After Tomorrow"

This film tells about climatologist Jack notices that a large glacier in Antarctica

has broken, thanks to the glacier, the world entering ice age. Jack tries to save his son and his friends.

(prepared by Nur Sena A.)

These are some books you can read

"Çevre ve Ekoloji"

The writer name of the books Mine Kışlalıoğlu. The book mentions about ecology and environment in Turkey.

"Sürdürülebilir Kentler İçin Çevre Bilinci"

The writer of the book is Demet Cansaran. The book mentions that we should not forget the environment in our activities.

Prepared by Nur Sena A.

"Plastic Soup: An Atlas of Ocean Pollution" 

by Michiel Roscam Abbing (Author)

Plastic Soup: An Atlas of Ocean Pollution 

is a beautifully-illustrated survey of the plastics clogging our seas, their impacts

on wildlife and people around the world,

and inspirational initiatives designed to

tackle the problem. 

(prepared by Izabela)

"Plastic Ocean: How a Sea Captain's Chance Discovery Launched a Determined Quest to Save the Oceans"

by Charles Moore (Author)

In Plastic Ocean, Moore recounts his ominous findings and unveils the secret life of plastics. From milk jugs and abandoned fishing gear to polymer molecules small enough to penetrate human skin and be unknowingly inhaled, plastic is now suspected of contributing to a host of ailments, including infertility, autism, thyroid dysfunction, and certain cancers.

(prepared by Alzbeta)

Usefull Videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ot0vYkRT1Mg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3A598yZO_RQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMncyN_C-pQ&t=65s

(prepared by Galanton)

Usefull Websites (prepared by Halime Erva)

https://bienal.iksv.org/en/16th-istanbul-biennial/the-seventh-continent

This is a very important bienal in İstanbul Turkey between the dates Sep 14th – Dec 10th 2019 prepared by İstanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts. This year subject of the bienal was "Seventh Continent". Click on the link for more info.

Usefull Websites (prepared by Halime Erva)

https://www.domusweb.it/en/design/2012/08/27/the-seventh-continent--musings-on-the-plastic-garbage-project.html

https://www.iberdrola.com/environment/plastic-island-in-pacific-eighth-continent

Also you can visit these web sites

CARTOONS (prepared by Bilge)

https://youtu.be/xFPoIU5iiYQ

https://youtu.be/qbVu6SY-FBQ

https://youtu.be/oZLBGXLrXcc

https://youtu.be/jzyuze9MgNQ

These are some cartoons about environmental problems and people's unconsciousness. You can watch them.

Here are some cartoons prepared by Beytullah and Janka.