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How do oil spills affect plankton?
It kills them. Plankton are myriad different sea creatures. They all die. Some bacteria can actually ingest oil, though.
How does oil spills affect the organisms in the sea?
Oil contaminate and kills the sea. Oil is a toxin, which would kill the sea life in a matter of seconds.
Why is crude oil in the Earth's crust a problem?
We can not get to the Crude oil easy, and you normaly find it under the sea, and as you are digging under the sea and the oil spills it will cause pollution and kill the sea creatures. -Bethany Wilden-
How do oil spills affect sea shores and animals?
By preventing access from the sea to the shore and vice versa, oil spills affect sea shores. They also keep sea and seaside plants from thriving let alone even surviving. Oil spills have a similar impact upon sea and seaside animals. The animals can't move back and forth between the coastal and marine environments. Their health, habitat and food supplies are threatened if not outright destroyed.
How oil spills pollute the water?
Oil spills contaminate the sea and the fish die along with sea birds.
How do oil spills kil sea otters?
They will get poisened by the oil when they inhale!
What will happen if nothing is done about the oil spills that is damaging the populations of sea otter?
if nothing is done about the oil spills that are damaging the populations of the sea otter then eventually the sea otter population will die off along with the other species caught in the oil spills around the world
How would the oil spill affect living things?
For one, chemicals from the oil can enter the bodies of sea creatures and cause them death.
What are problems for sea turtles?
oil spills and pollution in the ocean
Where do most oil spills occur?
In the Gulf of Mexico.
How is oil wasted?
Oil is wasted by many activities,by oil spills on sea,on sometimes burning.
What do oil workers int the North Sea do?
people in the north sea make sure the sea is not polluted, or gets oil spills.
