3+ocean+pollution

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 * __2__** over 80% of the marine pollution comes from land-based activities.

__**2**__ Almost everything you throw away can reach the ocean.


 * __2__** Ordinary people are responsible for pollution.


 * __2__** Only 20% of the ocean pollution is ocean based.

Ocean pollution can effect the living things in the ocean.


 * __4__** Plastic pollution can kill more than 100,000 marine mammals.


 * __4__** Their is no way to tell how many fish die a year from plastic pollution but it is about 3 to 4 million a year.


 * __8__** Human waste encourages the development of bacteria that is not only harmful to humans but it is harmful to animals.


 * __2__** Motor vehicles drop a small amount of oil each day onto the road and it eventually makes it to the ocean.


 * __5__** Every year 14 billion pounds of sewage, sludge, and garbage are dumped into the ocean.


 * __5__** 19 trillion pounds of waste enter the ocean every year.


 * __8__** Eventually people will be affected by water pollution because seafood could be carrying harmful diseases such as hepatitis from eating the poisoned by the fish or crustaceans.


 * __3__** In 1989 one of the worst oil spills was caused by Exxon Valdez, it spilled 11 million gallons of oil in the Prince William Sound, Alaska.


 * __3__** In 1997 22 oil spills were recorded world-wide. All of the oil spills added up cause 15 million gallons of oil in our oceans.


 * __10__** 100,000 marine animals and 2 million sea birds die every year from ingesting or being caught in plastic.

Each square mile of ocean surface off the Northeast coast of the U.S. has more than 46,000 pieces of plastic floating.


 * __2__** The number one reason is that creeks, rivers, lakes and beaches get dirty is from the water and other pollutants that find their way into storm drains.


 * __4__** In some parts of the ocean their is 6 times more plastic than plankton.


 * __11__** Trash island is twice the size of Texas.


 * __11__** Trash island is off the coast of California.


 * __11__** In some parts of trash island it goes down 90 feet.

=Websites:=

http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/OCEAN_PLANET/HTML/peril_oil_pollution.html

http://www.informaction.org/images/graph_ocean-pollutants.jpg

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/ocean-pollution-facts.html

http://scipeeps.com/water-pollution-facts-in-numbers-and-stats/

http://pollution-control.suite101.com/article.cfm/ocean_pollution_facts

http://library.thinkquest.org/26026/Environmental_Problems/water_pollution.html

http://library.thinkquest.org/26026/Environmental_Problems/water_pollution_-_effects.html

http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A0861891.html

http://courses.ma.org/classes/oceanography/swong/home.html

http://www.epa.gov/gmpo/edresources/debris_t.html

http://www.ukrivers.net/pollution.html#debris

http://oils.gpa.unep.org/kids/kids.htm

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/23/oprah-shines-light-on-gre_n_190552.html

=Outline= Page 1: Introduction

Page 2: Some ways pollution gets into the ocean. picture of graph

Page 3: Oil Spills Picture of oil in the ocean Picture of a bird with oil on it

Page 4: Plastic hermit crab with a plastic bottle cap on it

Page 5: Sewage and waste Picture of a sewage drain

Page 6: INTERACTIVE label a graph of pollution percentages

Page 7: How long it takes different things to break down in the ocean Picture of things that break down

Page 8: How humans can be effected by pollution Picture of seafood

Page 9: INTERACTIVE match how long it takes for things to break down

Page 10: How animals are effected by pollution Pictures of effected animals

Page 11: Trash Island Pictures of Trash island

Page 12: Watch a video about trash island

Page 13: INTERACTIVE match some facts about trash island from the video

Page 14: Sources Show what sites we used

PICTURES:
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