By the 56th day the oil had traveled 470 miles southward. One month later, oil was found all along the beautiful and fragile coastline, at distances of more than 1200 miles from the original spill. Because sea otters rely on clean and dry fur to keep warm, the oil coating their fur was life threatening. Scientists estimate 3000 sea otters died. Then conduct four oil investigations.
Motor oil is toxic to all animal and plant life.
Be careful not to get it on your hands or in your eyes. When the activity is over, pour the oil back in the original container and take it to an oil recycling drop off point. Do not pour it down the sink or put it in the trash. Locate Prince William Sound on your classroom map of the United States. Look carefully at the map of the Gulf of Alaska below.