The Science of an Oil Spill

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Published in the United States of America by Cherry Lake Publishing Ann Arbor Michigan www cherrylakepublishing com Consultants Dr Thomas Azwell College of Natural Resources University of California Berkeley Marla Conn ReadAbility Inc Editorial direction Red Line Editorial Book design and illustration Design Lab Photo Credits Shutterstock Images cover 1 Design Lab 6 Paul Malyugin Shutterstock Images 6 oil rig US Coast Guard AP Images 7 NASA 9 Dorling Kindersley Thinkstock 11 iStock Thinkstock 13 Hulton-Deutsch Collection Corbis 15 Patrick Semansky AP Images 16 23 US Fish Wildlife Service 21 Jae C Hong AP Images 24 Dave Martin AP Images 27 Copyright 2015 by Cherry Lake Publishing All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means without written permission from the publisher Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Wang Andrea author The science of an oil spill by Andrea Wang pages cm Disaster science Audience Age 11 Audience Grades 4 to 6 Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN 978-1-63137-630-6 hardcover ISBN 978-1-63137-675-7 pbk ISBN 978-1-63137-720-4 pdf ebook ISBN 978-1-63137-765-5 hosted ebook 1 Oil spills Juvenile literature 2 Oil spills Environmental aspects Juvenile literature 3 BP Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill 2010 Juvenile literature I Title TD196 P4W36 2015 363 738’2 dc23 2014004036 Cherry Lake Publishing would like to acknowledge the work of The Partnership for 21st Century Skills Please visit www p21 org for more information Printed in the United States of America Corporate Graphics Inc July 2014 ABOUT THE AUTHOR Andrea Wang was an environmental consultant before becoming a writer She helped clean up sites contaminated with oil and other hazardous materials She also assessed the risk of harm to human health and the environment from contaminated soil water and air