Locations
Causes
Vocabulary
100
Currently the Biggest Dead Zone in the World.
What is The Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone
100
A product high in nitrates and/or phosphorous that contributes oceanic dead zones.
What is Fertalizer/pestacides
100
An area of the ocean that is depleted of oxygen, frequently due to pollution.
What is a Dead Zone?
200
What types of areas are the dead zones likely to form?
What is Agricultural runoff sites and/or industrial dumping sites
200
This practice often can be traced to oceanic dead zones.
What is Agricultural practices.
200
The process of increasing phosphorous or other chemical nutrients into a body of water.
What is Eutrophication?
300
This body of water in eastern Europe used to be the largest dead zone in the world.
What is Black Sea
300
This unintentional Cleanup was caused by the lack of the soviet union in 1991 to 2001, driving fertalizer prices high.
What is The Black Sea Cleanup.
300
Low oxygen.
What is Hypoxic?
400
Which continent contributes the most to Pollution causing Oceanic Dead zones
What is North America
400
A rapid increase in density of certain types of phytoplankton.
What is algal blooms.
400
this national oceanic phenomena may have a natural occuring deadzone caused by shallow sills that bring stagnant water.
What is fjords and other enclosed areas of water.
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