Environmental impacts
What major environmental threat comes from sunken ships leaking over time?
What is oil leakage?
What type of Japanese weapon besides bombs caused heavy damage to ships?
What are torpedoes?
What U.S. battleship famously sank during the attack on Pearl Harbor?
What is the USS Arizona?
How many U.S. battleships were damaged or destroyed in the attack?
What is eight?
What major war did the Pearl Harbor attack bring the U.S. into?
What is World War II?
How do bombings and sunken metal structures affect ocean habitats?
What is they damage ecosystems and change natural habitats?
How many Japanese soldiers died during the pearl harbor attack?
What is 130 Japanese soldiers?
Which U.S. president delivered the “Day of Infamy” speech?
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
What was the primary target of the Japanese bombers at Pearl Harbor?
What is the U.S. Pacific Fleet?
What was the name of the American air raid launched in response to Pearl Harbor?
What is the Doolittle Raid?
What trace were metals found in Pearl Harbor soil after the Japanese attack?
What is lead and chromium?
How many American soldiers that died in the attack on Pearl Harbor?
What is 2400 people?
What date did the U.S. officially declare war on Japan?
What is December 8, 1941?
Name one type of aircraft used by the Japanese in the attack.
What is a Mitsubishi Zero (or “Zero”)?
Which two Axis powers declared war on the U.S. after Pearl Harbor?
What are Germany and Italy?
What invasive species may be introduced through military shipwrecks?
What are non-native barnacles or algae?
How many aircraft were destroyed during the attack?
What is over 300?
What Pacific territory was also attacked by Japan on the same day as Pearl Harbor?
What is the Philippines?
How many waves of attack did the Japanese launch on Pearl Harbor?
What is two?
What U.S. policy changed drastically after the attack on Pearl Harbor?
What is isolationism?
What method is used today to study the environmental impact of sunken WWII ships?
What is remote sensing or underwater ROV (remotely operated vehicles) analysis?
Name a battleship that was later raised, repaired, and returned to service.
What is the USS West Virginia (or California, etc.)?
What was the main reason Japan attacked Pearl Harbor?
What is to cripple the U.S. Pacific Fleet and prevent interference in Japan’s expansion?
What U.S. ship remains sunken in Pearl Harbor as a memorial today?
What is the USS Arizona?
What was one long-term effect of the Pearl Harbor attack on American society?
What is increased military enlistment and industrial mobilization?