In This Lesson You Will...

  • Outline and discuss the large-scale environmental impacts resulting from the Gulf Oil Spill in the time frame from the spill to present.
  • Identify sources of information on the impacts of the Gulf Oil Spill and assess their reliability according to the strict standards of scientific investigation.
  • Give examples of scientific observations and inferences drawn from them regarding oil found on the seafloor since the spill.

SC.912.L.17.16: Discuss the large-scale environmental impacts resulting from human activity, including waste spills, oil spills, runoff, greenhouse gases, ozone depletion, and surface and groundwater pollution.
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SC.912.N.1.4: Identify sources of information and assess their reliability according to the strict standards of scientific investigation.
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SC.912.N.1.6: Describe how scientific inferences are drawn from scientific observations and provide examples from the content being studied.
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