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The most oil pollution to the ocean?
Runoff from land.
What are two major source of oil pollution in the ocean?
Two major sources of oil pollution in the ocean are oil spills and oil runoff from land-based sources. Oil spills occur when oil is released into the ocean from accidents or leaks during transportation, drilling, or storage. Oil runoff refers to the pollution caused by oil and petroleum products that are washed off from land surfaces into rivers and eventually reach the ocean through runoff.
What are environmental factors in the arctic tundra?
Pollution from mining and drilling for oil pollutes the air, lakes and rivers
How much water polluted by one liter of oil?
Water is generally considered to be polluted with oil once it has about 10 mg/L of oil in it (essentially 10 litres of oil per million litres of water). One litre of oil therefore pollutes 100,000 litres of water (100m3)
How can human use of fossil fuels be detrimental to the environment?
Fossil fuels are oil and coal. Both of which have to extracted from the earth through drill of wells or by digging of mines. The burning of these fuels pollutes the atmosphere.
What pollutes the ocean the most?
Indian ocean but nobody really knows so, it's not official yet.
How has oil helped and or hurt these countries?
oil helps countries by having it to heat and stuff like that but it also pollutes the habitats of the animals whether in the ocean or on land.
How was the Mexico oil spill caused?
it was caused by a rupture(s) of the oil pipe below the surface of the ocean.
Was there an oil spill in the ocean?
Yes it was in the gulf and it was caused by the oil company BP
What pollutes water the more vegetable oil or olive oil?
Vegetable oil
What are the enviormental hazards of oil?
If it spills then spreds that pollutes the oceans.
How are oil spills disaters?
oil spills kill or harm wild life and it pollutes the earth
What are the problems in the ocean?
as ship voyages increase day by day ,the amount of waste disposed from the ships into the ocean is also on the increase.this pollutes harbors and beyond tolerable limits.
What happens when people do not clean up oil spills?
It pollutes the area and destroys the ecosystem
The most oil pollution to the ocean?
Runoff from land.
What is the most harmful chemical that leads to the ocean?
oil
What causes did the crude oil spill do?
When crude oil spilt in the Gulf of Mexico it caused the oil to float into the Atlantic Ocean, near the United Kingdom (UK), and it also caused loads of animals to get completely cover in the oil and some possibly died because of it!
