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Please bring your field journal in the box on Lab Please bring your field journal in the box on Lab Table #3 Table #3
Please get out your Venn Diagram for a stamp. Please get out your Venn Diagram for a stamp. Compare your diagram with your neighbor and Compare your diagram with your neighbor and add missing details.add missing details.
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Exxon Valdez accident Exxon Valdez accident March, 1989March, 1989
hypothermiahypothermia
Pooled oil from the Pooled oil from the Exxon ValdezExxon Valdez sits between rocks on the sits between rocks on the shore. Most of the spilled oil decomposed. Cleanup crews shore. Most of the spilled oil decomposed. Cleanup crews recovered about 14 percent; 13 percent sank to the sea recovered about 14 percent; 13 percent sank to the sea floor; about two percent remained on the beaches, but floor; about two percent remained on the beaches, but today, very little remains. - NOAAtoday, very little remains. - NOAA
What were the effects of Macando?What were the effects of Macando?
Clean up strategiesClean up strategies
Physical Physical ChemicalChemical Biological (bioremediation)Biological (bioremediation)
Oil Spill Hair matOil Spill Hair mat
Double hull required nowDouble hull required now
Oil spills account for only about five percent Oil spills account for only about five percent of the oil entering the oceans. The Coast of the oil entering the oceans. The Coast Guard estimates that for United States Guard estimates that for United States waters sewage treatment plants discharge waters sewage treatment plants discharge
twice as much oil twice as much oil each year as tanker each year as tanker spills. - Smithsonian Institutionspills. - Smithsonian Institution
Do oil companies have an Do oil companies have an interest in protecting the interest in protecting the
environment?environment?
