PLTW Oil Spill

What is NOT a use of crude oil?

• Base of most petroleum products.

• Fuels some ocean animals.

• Heating homes

• Base of transportation fuels

True or false : Oil companies waste lots of money cleaning up an oil spill.

• True

• False

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What is the main cause of oil spills?

• people making mistakes or being careless.

• Explosions.

• Angry sea animals.

• Someone asleep at their job.

What is an effective way to clean oil spills.

• Scrubbing

• Booms and skimmers.

• Chemical Dispersants

• Burning the oil.

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What is an effective way to clean oil spills.

• Scrubbing

• Booms and skimmers.

• Chemical Dispersants

• Burning the oil.

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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 fence

• an oil rig

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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

• polymers

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When oil from an oil spill reaches the coastline and washes up on beaches it infiltrates the sand and creates something called...

• tar balls

• dispersants

• oil booms

• sticky sauce

• black gold

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The April 20th, 2010 offshore oil rig explosion that resulted in 11 deaths and 200 million gallons of oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico was called...

• Exxon Valdez

• Chevron Valdez

• BP Deepwater Horizon

• BP Shallowater Waves

• Love Canal

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The March 24th, 1989 oil tanker collision in the Prince William Sound that resulted in 11 million gallons of oil spilled into the Gulf of Alaska was called...

• Exxon Valdez

• Chevron Valdez

• BP Deepwater Horizon

• BP Shallowater Waves

• Love Canal

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