Oil Pollution and Biomagnification

A long, floating, apparatus that is interconnected and creates a barrier to minimize the spread of spilled oil is called...

• an oil skimmer

• dispersants

• an oil boom

• an oil rig

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-3

NGSS.MS-ETS1-1

NGSS.MS-ETS1-2

A chemical mixture of emulsifiers and solvents that helps break oil into small droplets to spread out throughout the entire water column of the ocean is called...

• contaminants

• dispersants

• cleaners

• petroleum

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NGSS.MS-PS1-2

An apparatus that is designed to remove thin layers of oil from the surface of a body of water is called...

• an oil skimmer

• dispersants

• an oil fence

• an oil rig

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-3

NGSS.MS-ETS1-1

When cost cutting efforts made the drilling rig faulty, oil and natural gas rushed into the drill casing and up into the rig where it was ignited and caused a massive explosion:

• Exxon Valdez

• Chevron Valdez

• BP Deepwater Horizon

• BP Shallowater Waves

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Deepwater Horizon oil spill was in

• Alaska

• Gulf of Mexico

• Louisiana

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-3

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Fossil fuels include

• natural gas, oil, coal

• bauxite, oil and water

• jet fuel, graphite, and lead

• wood, peat, oil

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

In the Deepwater Horizon incident, the oil that entered the ecosystem came from

• a tanker ship

• a seamount

• an underwater earthquake

• underneath the ocean floor

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-3

Resulted in the creation of the Oil Pollution Act

• Exxon Valdez
• Deepwater Horizon
• both
• neither

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-3

Which occurred in 1989

• Exxon Valdez

• Deepwater Horizon

• both 

• neither

Which occurred in 2010 

• Exxon Valdez

• Deepwater Horizon

• both 

• neither