Contamination
Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill (E202)
Read the information provided about the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Answer the related questions. Research on the topic before posting your comments. Be sure to use real, actual facts.
The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has become a disaster. The amount of oil spilling from an underwater well after an oil rig explosion has increased to as many as 5,000 barrels of oil a day, or 210,000 gallons, and even higher. As the Gulf of Mexico oil spill continues to extend, concern is growing for the wildlife that stand in its path. Even when efforts have been done to stop the oil before it reached the shores, the efforts have not been successful.
Answer each in complete sentences:
1. Identify 3 long-term consequences of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
2. In your opinion, what can be done to prevent ocean water contamination? (Provide 2 options.)
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1.
ReplyDeleteA. The immediate concerns on wildlife throughout the Gulf of Mexico.
B. The extreme effect this will have on the economy and gas prices.
C. It will increase water acidity, due to this marine life that is usually eaten will no longer be eaten due its toxicity.
D. The Food Chain will be severely damaged and may possibly cause a mass extinction event for some animals.
2. We could end underwater drilling altogether, the effect this has on marine life is not worth the risk.
Oil companies must have underwater stations and crews which monitor these pipelines closely, in any case of a leak or crack they must IMMEDIATELY shut down the drilling, deal with the situation and evaluate the safety of marine life and the ecological effect on the ocean.
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ReplyDeleteVictor L. Hernandez
ReplyDelete3 long-term consequences
1) The food chain is being affected and for this reason cases of extinction of marine animals can be seen.
2) The inhabitants of the countries nearly can face to eat foods that have been affected by this oil spill.
3) A result can be contamination of rivers, bodies of water that are vital for all species alive this planet.
Opinion
1) To avoid theses spills these equipment should by monitored frequently and replace what is necessary.
2) Should create equipment emergency cases like these. Machines allowing filter or remove oil that this spilling. Today there are so many advance that could help. We have to be aware of the importance of the seas and life that there in them.
1-pollution in the ocean is harmful to the life of animals, plants and corals because they are dying and that is where the extinction of them grows
ReplyDelete2- to harm the lives of animals also affects the environment because dead animals often reach the surface and the bad smell and decay affects the health of humans
3- Another reason why the oil spill is affected is because this contamination reaches the water of lakes, rivers, etc. and that water is what we consume.
an alternative to reduce or manage to completely avoid pollution in the ocean would increase fines for misuse of water.
another alternative would be to increase the surveillance of the coasts and the ocean.
JANICE VEGA LOPEZ
Identify 3 long-term consequences of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
ReplyDelete1. At long term it can cause defects in the reproductive system of species. That can provoked birth defects, death and the extinction of species.
2. Ecosystems can delay up to 100 years to recover from the toxicity of this oil spill.
3. Contamination percentage increases at food chain of the ocean species and this contamination and toxicity can reach humans, who consume this species. (Tuna, salmons and others.)
In you opinion, what can be done to prevent ocean water contamination? (Write 2 options.
In my opinion we need to start looking at the future, start choosing clean energy and more clean ways to operate. beginning by left contaminants like petroleum behind and put an end to how petroleum corporations drill te bottom of the ocean.
If big corporations are not opting for clean ways to operate, and they want to keep their practice, there should be higher fines, penalties and governments should revoke their permits.
Kevin Martinez
Elmer Ortíz Muñíz
ReplyDelete3 long-terms consequences
1. The wildlife would be affected. Specially that in the corner of the Gulf of Mexico.
2. The gas prices.
3. Contaminated sea food will probably arrived to our markets.
In my opinion, we need to be more careful about the things we throw into the water or any other part of nature. That would be letal to us, and for our wildlife as well. We are no alone in this surface, so we need to take care of those who are with us too.
Big companies need to be aware of this too, because keeping their practices of this would be dangerous for their finances as well and also for their health.
Identify:
ReplyDelete1. 20 percent of the spilled oil may have ended up on top of and in the seafloor, damaging deep sea corals and potentially damaging other ecosystems that are unseen at the surface.
2. Pelicans, sea turtles, marine mammals , also birds and other Gulf of Mexico wildlife struggling in oil. Many of them died and others were saved and sended to safer places.
3. The chemicals in oil that are of most concern to humans are called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). Some of these are known to cause cancer. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is charged with monitoring the levels of PAHs in Gulf Coast seafood.
Part II
1. Removing spilled oil from the environment is a difficult task. Because oil is hydrophobic (doesn't mix with water), it floats to the surface when it spills into the ocean and forms large slicks. The most basic method of clean up is to control the spread of the oil using physical barriers.
2. Determine which fisheries are safe to open and which ones should be closed. In order for a fishery to be reopened, it must pass both a "smell" test and a chemical analysis. Seafood cannot go to market if it contains harmful levels of PAHs or if it emits an odor associated with petroleum or dispersants.
~Keishla M. Soto Palau :)
Emmanuelie Gonzalez
ReplyDelete1.
A. More than 400 species of wild life still at risk including the endangered green turtle, logger head turtle and the leather back turtle.
B. More than 39 marine species were threatened, 14 of them under federal protection for endangered species.
C. The ocean ecosystem was directly harmed by the microbes used to clean the oil spill because it reduced the oxygen levels in the water and it will take decades to recover.
2.
A. Residents should ask the goverment to approve stronger regulations for deep ocean oil drilling to prevent future disasters in endangered areas.
B. Goverment should approve the use of chemical oil dispersant that biodegradate the oil in smaler particles making it eassier to sensitive marine areas to recover and are proved to affect less the enviroment because it takes less time to work.
1.The ocean are contamined.
ReplyDelete2.the gas prices.
3. she die much species animal.
2.DO STUDIES TO THE PLANTS YO AVOID INRREGULATING.
PEOPLE AVOID LITTERING OR POLLUTING THE OCEANS SINCE POLLUTION IS SOMETHING TO DEBUG.
Ninochka Crespo
ReplyDeletePart 1
1) Deep sea corals have died.
2) The oil has contaminated a great part of the ocean/.
3) It's risky because fishes are sick and humans don't know what they are consuming.
Part 2
1) Fishers had a decency on their industry because of the oil spotting they must clean it up the faster they can so they won't lose more money.
2) They most work in team.
Ninochka Crespo!
1) -numbers of species threatened by oil and chemists that carry
ReplyDelete-Many birds can be affected when they travel along the coast
-In the long term affects the marine environment
2)To avoid pollution in the ocean we must first start not leaving the garbage on our beaches, no plastics on our beaches and especially the fuels of each boat, I think that is the most thing that affects us and more control over boats traveling in the ocean and verify is had mechanical defects.
Danoshka Ruiz Velez Engl 202
Hundreds of turtles, dolphins and whales have died because of this catastrophe. Less resistence and more infections for the species below. Destruction of various species discovered and not yet discovered.
ReplyDeleteMany of us know that hey is used as food for animals. Hey is very absorbent. An alternative for cleaning up part of the BP spill could' ve been hey. Making a system including hey wich could absorb the oil or at least part of it could have been a great alternative. Xavier Guzmán
1. Polluted oceans
ReplyDelete2. Dead animals
3. Price in the gasoline
Do the relevant studies to avoid contamination. Because many families are affected due to pollution since this is the livelihood of their home. It is unfortunate that this happens.
1.
ReplyDeleteA. Reduce the ability of fish and other aguatic life to find food and cause entire population to leave an area or even die.
B. Caused the erosion of land due to the oil having led to the death of the warsh vegetation.
c. The people that it will holiday to some island that could become this derame of oil not return more.
Opinion:
1. The workers they are in turn must be informal other workers that it will enter the turn any changes that occurred.
2. Always check the machines before putting them to work.
A- Marine creatures that breathe for gills can be victims of suffocation.
ReplyDeleteB- It can affect breeding sites, or cause the mutual or death of
the young animals.
C- Infections in the species destruction of food sources.
1- They must make tests on structures, they should not buy products that affect marine life.
2- Must make tests on the structure, check the weight of the gas to prevent future spills.
Wilmary Muñoz Nieves
1.
ReplyDeleteA. Water is contaminated.
The animals muren because of the contamination.
This produces illnesses in people and as well as their sustenance for lack of food.
2. Although it would take a lot of expense I consider that we should change our need for oil to renewable energies.
By achieving this change that would take too long, contamination could be avoided by constantly inspecting and maintaining industrial equipment.
Yatzelie Cordero Gonzalez
3 long-term consequences:
ReplyDelete1. The death of every marine creature and its habitat.
2. The difficulty of cleaning the Gulf of Mexico due to little knowledge on how to clean the oil from the sea.
3. The daily life of the human being would not be the same, since the petrolio is dangeres for nearby places where it happens.
Opinions:
1.One of the problems so that water pollution can be resolved is to have more knowledge on how to clean the waters of the world without damaging marine life.
2.have knowledge about the production that people make under the sea and that those are for the good of marine life and that of the human being in order to have control over what happens to the world.
Alondra M. Vega
1. Animals get sick because of pollution.
ReplyDelete2. Garbage accumulates on the seashore and animals can die by eating this.
3. If they can not be in their habitat due to contamination they can be extinguished because they can not be reproduced.
4. Another thing that hurts animals is the fuel that ships shed. This is one of the worst things.
These are some of the things that we think do not affect anyone and actually affect much more than we imagine.
Angie Varela
ReplyDelete1. Species on the verge of death because of contamination in the water.
2. The difficulty of being able to clean a contaminated sea because of the oil
3. In this photo we see how pollution destroys the species of our land.
4. We see how the sea is seriously contaminated with substances such as oil
Opinions:
1. In the following photos we see how the oil spill has negative consequences in the environment.
2. I think we have to take care of our planet earth, because by contaminating it we put the human beings and the lives of many species at risk.
3 long- term consequences
ReplyDeleteA. The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico can affect the health of workers and residents.
B. Can damage the aquatic ecosystem and biodiversity of the earth.
C. Cleaning up oil spills is extremely costly, which is why in the long term government agencies and nonprofit organizations can be targeted.
opinion:
1. What we can do as human beings to avoid oceanic pollution is to become aware and avoid so many oil spills since this affects many animals that fly in these oceans.
2. We must start to recycle more because many of the products we use, such as plastic bottles etc, end up in the oceans and pollute them.
Joashlie L. Cuevas
1. The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has direct consequences on the fauna near the gulf.
ReplyDelete2.It has a direct effect on the economy of the country.
3. As a result of the spill, it directly impacts other bodies of water that surround the mainly affected one.
Opinions:
1.create awareness about the need and importance of water bodies around the planet.
2. Create a law that protects bodies of water and sanctions those responsible for oil spill and other types of pollution.
Coralis del Mar Cardona Suárez.