Environmental Disasters

1984

Poison Gas leak in Bhopol

Happened in

Midnight

Poisen Gas

Realeased in

An Explosion at a Factory

Bad Effects to human bodies

Coughing

Felt like somebody had filled the body up with RED CHILIES

Tears Coming Out

Noses were watering

Had froth in mouths

As thick as FOG

Eyes were swollen that people could not open them

Leads to

Family Separation (when people running for lives)

Results in

Dead bodies(animals) everywhere

Doctors weren't sure how to treat patients

Because

Officials of the chemical company didn't tell what was in the gas

4,000 - 10,000 people died

200,000 - 500,000 people injured

People who survived became so ill

Leads to

Couldn't work

Couldn't go to school

Couldn't take care of themselves

1989

The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill

Exxon Valedz

Is a

Oil Supertanker

Carry crude oil

March 24, 1989

Sailing through

Prince William Sound in Alaska

Famous for NATURAL BEAUTY

Millions of wildlife lived there

Accident

Exxon Valdez turned to avoid hitting icebergs

The ship crashed into ROCKS

Because

Turned too fast

11 million gallons oil poured out from steel bottom

Results in

Feathers of birds were coated with heavy oil

Leads to

Birds could not fly

Some birds drowned

Seals&Sea otters got stuck in the goop

Billions of Eggs were destroyed

Definition

Affect Natural World

Destructive

Cause

Pollution

Depletion of Natural Resources

Industrial activity

Agriculture

Caused by

Human activities

1914

Passenger Pigeons

Quantity

In 1813

Most common bird

The light of noon-day was as by an ECLIPSE

Looked like a RIVER flowing through air

In 1913

Only ONE

Live in Zoo

Reason of Extinction

People cut forests to make room for farms

Results in

No tree

Leads to

No enough FOOD

Overhunting

Reason

Hunting them was easy

Since

Whole flocks of pigeons landed in ONE PLACE

No LAWS limited hunting

Leads to

Many pigeons broke their limbs off the trees

Usage

Good food supply

Professional hunters killed pigeons to SELL

Farmers fed birds to PIGS

As Fertilizer