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Answer 1

Why are phytoplankton essential to aquatic life zones?
Select one:
a. Filter pollution from water
b. Provide basis of food chains
c. Moderate water temperature
d. Produce chemicals that can be used against predators

Answer 2

@Zale101

Answer 3

B.

Answer 4

Is this AP Environmental Science or something?

Answer 5

Got more questions?

Answer 6

yeah it is and yes i have more questions :)

Answer 7

A newly formed lake is most likely _______.
Select one:
a. Oligotrophic
b. Eutrophic
c. Culturally eutrophic

Answer 8

@BioEpic

Answer 9

Oligotrophic?
@PRAETORIAN.10

Answer 10

Which of the following lake zones is similar to the coastal zone of the ocean?
Select one:
a. Benthic
b. Limentic
c. Littoral
d. Profundal

Answer 11

Hello chaps.

Answer 12

hi :)

Answer 13

I'm just about to go out to a lecture in Brissy for Prof. Brian Cox he's sooo smart

Answer 14

okay...

Answer 15

Wetlands have many benefits, including recreational opportunities, fish, and improving water quality.
Select one:
True
False

Answer 16

it deepends on how deep, but yeah, take the american glades for example

Answer 17

so true?

Answer 18

Regulated fishing in freshwater life zones can have a positive economic impact.
Select one:
True
False

Answer 19

if in modesty, then yes

Answer 20

How can regulations on fertilizer use help keep freshwater life zones clean from pollution?
Select one:
a. Helps prevent cultural eutrophication
b. Speeds up runoff
c. Slows algae growth

Answer 21

the issue with fertiliser is that when it rains it get dumped into the water and kills and clogs up riparian ecosystems

Answer 22

soooo. a?

Answer 23

The unregulated use of fertilizers has actually benefitted freshwater life zones.
Select one:
True
False

Answer 24

false of course

Answer 25

The end of a river or stream is the_________________________.
Select one:
a. Transition zone
b. Mouth
c. Source
d. Headwater

Answer 26

Mouth, because it opens to the sea

Answer 27

Which part of a river would have animals with very muscular bodies and adaptations that let survive in turbulent water?
Select one:
a. Source zone
b. Transition zone
c. Floodplain zone

Answer 28

Environmental science? that's my major

Answer 29

Well, a floodplain is like a swamp, and transition zone is like a shore of a beach (I think)?

Answer 30

yeh, Environmental Science...

Answer 31

sooo. A?

Answer 32

I think transition zones have tides, and flood plains are just that. The source of a stream would have a powerful flow, so that's my guess

Answer 33

Wetlands areas around an urban parking lot can filter out some of the chemical pollutants from the parking lot before they reach the groundwater.
Select one:
True
False

Answer 34

True. They usually have water low in oxygen, and chemical processes occur quickly

Answer 35

Which of the following lake zones is similar to the coastal zone of the ocean?
Select one:
a. Benthic
b. Limentic
c. Littoral
d. Profundal

Answer 36

I heard this before, but I can't remember for the life of me. My notes of the life-cylce of lakes is far away.

Answer 37

*zones