Tony



As a student I am going to reduce my ecological footprint by helping the spilling of oil on to plants and producers.

In the next week I will put oil in a plant and leave another with it regular. I will make a youtube video to show the effects of the diffrent water.

I know that almost every body in the world has accidently dumped oil into the ocean or even a river either way people are nnot going to be able to clean it up with a rag especially the plants. Over 10,000 pplants have died beacuase of oil touching thier roots this affects plants cause it kills their nervauos system. Making the plant wilt and later die there are house hold items though like dawn dish soap that can elimanate oil in plants and animals. this will reduce what we have dumped and we may convinced to stop dumping. this can also be held to a stop by using special bacteria that will eat oil.by the time 2012 come we could have reduced the oil down to something so small it would not affect anything over 1 pound. Oil is one of the most long lasting substances. Scientist say that by 2012 the death rate for oil will be higher than black market hunters.  @http://www.ehs.cdu.edu.au/chromolaena/pubs/oil.html @http://www.ehow.com/about_6603763_effect-oil-water-plants_.html @http://www.waterencyclopedia.com/Oc-Po/Oil-Spills-Impact-on-the-Ocean.html @http://www.epa.gov/oem/docs/oil/edu/oilspill_book/chap5.pdf @http://www.ehs.cdu.edu.au/chromolaena/pubs/oil.html @http://www.ehow.com/about_6603763_effect-oil-water-plants_.html @http://www.blurtit.com/q183487.html As a student I can reduce my ecological foot print on my local environment by helping with the oil in the ocean or lake thats affects our plantsExperiment steps: We are planning to take 4 plants 2 for one oil and one using water and the other 2 to see how we can get the oil off without killing the plant.  It is proved that almost 706 million gallons of oil is out into the ocean every year! This is from land drainage and waste disposal. And some of it goes on plants and kills it. Also, in the Gulf of mexico they dump at l east 80,000 barrels of oil each day which goes on plants and animals. For one thing, most of the oil is found on the seafloor. Which floats up and affects the marine animals and plants .Similarly, some people are drilling to much in the ground to get oil which put danger to plant life and aquatic animals. When Crude oil gets on a plants or seeds it makes the plant not germinate so then the plant cannot grow. Also as some people know that oil dosent dissolve so when it gets on the plant it create a layer of oil and it dosent let gasses get in the water or in the plant Ways to help : if u have hair or something that can soak up things thats a way to help with oil so it dosent affects on plants. Also even Dog hair could help or regular !!!!! Also, the oil affects the process of photo synthesis






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