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WorksheetsOil spills suck.
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 9mins
Significant wildlife populations harmed included salmon, sea otters, killer whales/orcas. Consider where in the world the spill occurred.
Oil flowed into the marine environment for 5 months
Birds soaked in oil are most likely to die
due to hypothermia (can't stay warm)
when they consume the toxic oil
because they can't fly away from predators
because they can't reproduce
After an oil spill, ________ are most likely not going to consume oil by grooming themselves.
sea otters
sea turtles
sea ducks
sea gulls
Oil often floats on top of water because
oil is less dense than water
oil is non-polar
oil is polar
water is nonpolar
All of these industries were negatively affected by the DeepWater Horizon spill EXCEPT
tourism
fisheries
real estate
agriculture
Oil spill remediation can include all of the following except
physical strategies
biological remediation
chemical remediation
economic remediation
Chemicals that break up oil in the ocean are called
dispersents
polar molecules
biomagnificaiton
detergents
In which order does oil spill remediation usually happen?
physical, chemical, biological
biological, chemical, physical
chemical, physical, biological
chemical, biological, physical
Which of these are part of physical remediation after an oil spill?
booms and hair/feather-filled pillows
dispersents
bacteria and plankton
vacuums and bacteria
Biological remediation after an oil spill involves
bacteria that eat oil droplets
photosynthetic plankton that absorb the oil
dispersents that break up oil into small droplets
pillows filled with feathers from chickens that absorb the oil
