Environmental Damage
There are many things affected by oil on the shoreline: birds, reptiles and amphibians, fish, invertebrates, habitats and plants, wetlands, and marine mammals and terrestrial mammals.
Oil spills impact all aspects of the environment.
What to Expect
- Workers should expect to encounter dead and bloated animal carcasses, struggling and dying wildlife, and crude oil impacts to the shoreline.
- Thousands of animals die immediately from being inundated with the oil.
- Higher death rates follow in subsequent years, partially because animals ingest prey from contaminated soil and from ingestion of oil residues on hair due to grooming.
Knowledge Check Choose the best answer for the question.
3-3. Higher death rates follow oil spills because partially because animals _____.
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