Q: A recent deadly explosion in the gulf of mexico exemplified what source of ocean pollution?


Read this paragraph and choose the correct option from the provided answers:

Oil spills are another source of ocean pollution. To get at oil buried beneath the seafloor, oil rigs are built in the oceans. These rigs pump oil from beneath the ocean floor. Huge ocean tankers carry oil around the world. If something goes wrong with a rig on a tanker, millions of barrels of oil may end up in the water. The oil may coat and kill ocean animals. Some of the oil will wash ashore. This oil may destroy coastal wetlands and ruin beaches. Figure below shows an oil spill on a beach. The oil washed ashore after a deadly oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.

 Choices:

- greenhouse gases

- fracking disaster

- algal bloom

- oil spill


A:
oil spill