Amy's English Notecards
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1 OCEAN POLLUTION
"Plastics and other waste products have harmed the oceans and the sea life that depends on them." (pg. 10) -
OCEAN POLLUTION
"Industrial chemical wastes gush into a waterway connected to an ocean. Such wastes threaten the ocean's delicate ecosystem." (pg.14) -
OCEAN POLLUTION
"Manufacturing processses produce industrial waste. This waste disposal site in Washington state contains nuclear waste." (pg.25) -
OCEAN POLLUTION
"Toxic waste kills life in inland waterways, too. A fisherman motors through a blanket of dead and dying fish in Escambia Bay, Florida. The fish were killed by industrial wastes, untreated sewage, and fertilizer runoff." (pg.27) -
OCEAN POLLUTION
"If mishandled, toxic substances can sometimes kill." (pg.30) -
OCEAN POLLUTION
"Industrial dumping has severely damaged the water and sediment of the harbor in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Dumping there began in the 1930s." (pg.35) -
OCEAN POLLUTION
"Drums of nuclear waste washed ashore. Even minute doses of such wastes can be harmful or lethal to people and animals." (pg.37) -
OCEAN POLLUTION
"These dead fish washed up in an area close to New Jersey's first nuclear power plant in Lacey Township." (pg.39) -
OCEAN POLLUTION
"The first atomic blast at Bikini Atoll sends a mushroom cloud high into the air. People living nearby experienced radiation sickness from the blast." (pg.40) -
OCEAN POLLUTION
"Radioactive ash showered these natives of Rongelap Atoll, one hundred miles from Bikini Atoll." (pg.40) -
OCEAN POLLUTION
"The garbage on this fouled coastline includes broken-up furniture and other household items." (pg.50) -
OCEAN POLLUTION
"These syringes and blood vials were found along New York state beaches in the summer of 1988." (pg.51) -
OCEAN POLLUTION
"A turtle entangled in a fishing net. The turtle's inability to move will cause it to suffocate and die." (pg.55) -
OCEAN POLLUTION
"This large, healthy seal was killed by a narrow, thin piece of plastic." (pg.56) -
OCEAN POLLUTION
"The hull of the supertanker Torrey Canyon was sliced open off the coast of England, spilling 119,000 tons of gooey petroleum." (pg.62) -
OCEAN POLLUTION
"In a matter of hours, oil from the Exxon Valdez polluted more than twelve hundred miles of Alaskan coastline. The spill kiled thousands of birds and animals." (pg.64) -
OCEAN POLLUTION
"It may take two hundred years for the Persian Gulf to cleanse itself of Kuwaiti oil." (pg.72) -
OCEAN POLLUTION
"Toxic pollution has affected oceans around the globe. Here a four-man crew attempts to rig a floating boom to suppress the flow of oil from the stricken tanker Torrey Canyon." (pg.90) -
OIL SPILLS
"The Trans-Alaska Pipeline. Alaska has one of the largest oil reserves in the United States." (pg.9) -
OIL SPILLS
"Although nature can clean up small amounts of oil, it can not handle the massive consequence of an oil tanker spill." (pg.31)