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In 1989, the Exxon Valdez spilled nearly 42,000,000 liters of oil into Prince William Sound, Alaska. How would this spill be classified?

Abiotic environmental
Biotic environmental
Genetic
Pathogenic

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A. Abiotic environmental

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In biology and ecology, abiotic components or abiotic factors are non-living chemical and physical parts of the environment that affect living organisms and the functioning of ecosystems. Abiotic factors and phenomena associated with them underpin all biology. So the oil spill is a non-living chemical

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