Bhopal Disaster
The country this disaster occurred in.
What is India?
Biggest threat to the coral reef
What is climate change?
NRC stands for what (in context of public health)
The primary factor that puts stress on coral and leads to coral bleaching
What are warmer ocean temperatures?
The number of people who died immediately after the leak.
What is 3,800 people?
The surface area of the Great Barrier Reef (in km2 or mi2)
What is 348,700 km2 and 133,000 mi2?
Year that this incident occurred.
What is 1979?
The pesticides continue to liner and contaminate these parts of Bhopal.
What is the soil and the water?
The chemical that was released into the atmosphere.
What is methyl isocyanate (MIC)?
Number of islands in Great Barrier Reef
What is 900?
State that this incident occurred
The long-term effect on the surrounding ecosystem resulting from the partial nuclear meltdown
What is no measurable effects?
The partial meltdown mainly released which two radioactive noble gases
what is xenon and krypton
The dates that the Bhopal disaster occurred.
What is December 2 - 3?
Amount of money tourism generates at the GBR annually
What is $7.9 billion?
Major impacts upon US nuclear industry after this accident (1 example)
What is: upgrading plant design and plant requirements, revamping operator training, improved instrumentation, improved regulatory oversight, or enhancing emergency preparedness?
Scientists estimate that up to ___% of the world's coral reefs could be lost by 2050
What is 90%?
Long-term health studies found statistically significant increases in what health effects (in humans) after the partial nuclear meltdown.
What is none?
The company responsible for the poor conditions and lack of safety regulations, leading to the chemical leak.
What is the Union Carbide Corporation?
The algae that gives coral their color.
What is zooxanthellae?
Average radiation does of the 2 million people around TMI-2 during the accident
What is 1 millirem?
Chemical equation of ocean acidification. Remember states
What is CO2 (aq) + H2O (l) --> HCO3- (aq) + H+