Annotated Bibliography

1. http://www.greeniacs.com/GreeniacsArticles/Great-Pacific-Garbage-Patch.html
This site tells about many different things on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. It has the formation, effects on wildlife, and information on the possible end of the patch. I only used to site to learn about the area's effect on wildlife. It told me about the animals mistake the trash for food and the harmful, indigestible garbage enters the food chain. It also told me about how animals get tangled in the floating mess of trash.

2. http://discovermagazine.com/2008/jul/10-the-worlds-largest-dump
This site talks about the problems of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and also describes it. I leaned from this site how big the garbage patch is and that is it also called the Eastern Garbage Patch or the North Pacific Gyre. I also found that people sometimes refer to the trash in the water as "plastic soup."

3. http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/index.cfm/go/news.feature/id/1656/page/2
This site talks about how the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a problem and how it effects animals, as well as humans. This site is mostly about how the Great Pacific Garbage Patch effects humans, but there was still a bit on animals that I used. I learned that many animals died from eating the plastic and the toxics in the trash enters the food chain, and may reach humans and effect us too.

4. http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-the-great-pacific-garbage-patch.htm
Like the other sites, this site tells about the problems of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and how it was created. It also talks a bit about animals and problems caused for them. I used the information about how the garbage patch takes away homes for marine life because the garbage makes it impossible for animals to live near it. There is more information that doesn't apply to my question.