What is an oil spill?

Answer 1

An oil spill is when a pump or boat carrying oil breaks and makes a hole or break which releases mass amounts of oil into seas (depending on how big the hole is). This causes what people call an oil spill.

when oil is spilled in seas and it causes water pollution and makes many animals die.

Answer 2

Hi there, i'm currently doin a project on this and the ones that I know are collisions, hull faliures, fires and explosion, groundings ( running a ground on reefs ect. ) Hope that helps!
Oil spills are caused by human error most of the time. There are probably cases of where a large boulder rolled into an oil pipeline and punctured it . . .

Answer 3

An oil spill occurs in lakes an oceans. It kills any plants, mammals, and fish that go near it. So, knowing that an oil spill occurs in lakes and oceans, an oil spill goes under the pollution category of water pollution. So there you have it, water pollution.water pollution means that the water gets dirty with oil.

in other words the water gets mixed with oil

Answer 4

oill spills are harmful. they causes many problems