A Picture is Worth 1000 Words Photo Gallery

A Picture is Worth 1000 Words

Photo Gallery • Number your paper 1 -10. • You will be shown a series of images. Each image will be up for 30 seconds. • Write the down the first “phrase” or “word” that comes to mind when viewing the image.

10 Biggest Oil Spills in History http: //www. popularmechanics. com/science/ener gy/g 1765/biggest-oil-spills-in-history/?

• Gulf War, 1991 • Location: Kuwait • Gallons: 240 to 336 million http: //www. popularmechanics. com/science/energy/g 1765/biggest-oil-spills-in-history/? slide=1

• Ixtoc 1 Oil Well, 1979 • Location: Bay of Campeche, Mexico • Gallons: 140 million http: //www. nature. com/news/2010/100714/full/466304 a. html

• Atlantic Empress, 1979 • Location: Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies • Gallons: 88. 3 million http: //sea-jobs. net/top-20 -biggest-oil-spills-part-1 -147 -wi. html http: //www. popularmechanics. com/science/energy/g 1765/biggest-oil-spills-in-history/? slide=3

• Fergana Valley, 1992 • Location: Uzbekistan • Gallons: 87. 7 million http: //www. wonders-world. com/2010/09/10 -biggest-oil-spills-in-history. html

• Nowruz Oil Field, 1983 • Location: Persian Gulf • Gallons: 80 million http: //www. popularmechanics. com/science/energy/g 1765/biggest-oil-spills-in-history/? slide=5

• ABT Summer, 1991 • Location: Off he coast of Angola • Gallons: 80 million http: //www. rediff. com/money/slide-show-1 -these-are-the-worlds-10 -worst-oil-disasters/20120529. htm#6

• Castillo de Beliver, 1983 • Location: Off Saldanha Bay, South Africa • Gallons: 78. 5 million http: //www. oilspillsolutions. org/majorspills. htm http: //www. popularmechanics. com/science/energy/g 1765/biggest-oil-spills-in-history/? slide=7

• Amoco Cadiz, 1978 • Location: Off Brittany, France • Gallons: 68. 7 million http: //ambientedeluz. blogspot. com/2010/05/megadesastres-ambientais. html http: //www. popularmechanics. com/science/energy/g 1765/biggest-oil-spills-in-history/? slide=8

• Odyssey Oil Spill, 1988 • Location: 700 nautical miles off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada • Gallons: 43 million http: //www. popularmechanics. com/science/energy/g 1765/biggest-oil-spills-in-history/? slide=9

• MT Haven Tanker, 1991 • Location: Genoa, Italy • Gallons: 42 million http: //www. popularmechanics. com/science/energy/g 1765/biggest-oil-spills-in-history/? slide=10

Second Viewing • This time you need to write down the year that each spill occurred. • Sketch a timeline of the oil spills. Date #1 Date #2

Timeline (not to scale) 1978 (68. 7 million) 1983 (80 million) 1983 (78. 5 million) 1979 (140 million) 1979 (83 million) 1991 (42 million) 1991 (240 -336 million) 1991 (80 million) 1988 (43 million) 1992 (887. 7 million)

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