This WebQuest was constructed in order to convey the importance of our environment and to realize how quickly and easily it can be destroyed. This exercise promotes student learning, research skills, and the verbalization of ideas, while also illustrating to the student the necessity of a clean and healthy environment. This book explores the relationship between nature, society, and man, and the changes that occurred when this delicate balance was upset. By Thomas R. Loughlin Summarizes previously confidential US government data on the oil spill's effect on marine mammals, including sea lions, otters, seals, and whales, in Prince William Sound and the Gulf of Alaska.
Appendices offer sample collection documentation and a list of other oil tanker accidents.