1. Oil Pollution Savia Iakovou Julia Antoniou Julia Antoniou

2. How is oil formed?

3. Where is oil produced?

5. Uses of oil To fuel: To fuel: Our airplanes Our airplanes Cars and trucks Cars and trucks To heat our homes To heat our homes To make products like medicines and plastic To make products like medicines and plastic The worst impacts from oil use is during shipping.

6. How much? According to the web site www.ucsusa.org 6600 tankers 6600 tankers 524 billion gallons per year 524 billion gallons per year That’s 1.4 billion every day ! That’s 1.4 billion every day !

7. Pollution Pollution gallons per year

9. Exxon Valdez Prince William Sound, Alaska, on March 24, 1989 Prince William Sound, Alaska, on March 24, 1989 Spilled 10.8 million U.S. gallons (about 40 million liters) Spilled 10.8 million U.S. gallons (about 40 million liters) covered 1,300 square miles (3,400 km2) of ocean. covered 1,300 square miles (3,400 km2) of ocean.

10. After Effects storm pushed fresh oil onto the rocky shores storm pushed fresh oil onto the rocky shores  Thousands of animals died immediately  250,000-500,000 seabirds  1,000 sea otters  1,000 sea otters  300 harbor seals  250 bald eagles  22 orcas Destruction of billions  salmon  herring eggs.  herring eggs.

11. Solutions MARPOL (for MARine POLlution) MARPOL (for MARine POLlution) Oil clings to hair Oil clings to hair Safer oil tankers Safer oil tankers

12. Bibliography http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exxon_Valdez _oil_spill http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exxon_Valdez _oil_spill http://www.gi.alaska.edu/ScienceForum/A SF14/1401.html http://www.gi.alaska.edu/ScienceForum/A SF14/1401.html http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/OCEAN_PLAN ET/HTML/peril_oil_pollution.html http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/OCEAN_PLAN ET/HTML/peril_oil_pollution.html http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/kids/energy.cfm? page=oil_home-basics#top-container http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/kids/energy.cfm? page=oil_home-basics#top-container