WorksheetsPLTW Oil Spill
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 2hrs 34mins
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
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.
What is an effective way to clean oil spills.
Scrubbing
Booms and skimmers.
Chemical Dispersants
Burning the oil.
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
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
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
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
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
Petroleum based polymers similar to that of styrofoam are hydrophobic, have high porosity, and have an attraction to other hydrocarbons which makes them useful for cleaning up oil spills. These are called...
absorbents
pellets
dispersants
plastics
oil bombs
