When Runoff Containing Excessive Nutrients Enters Streams and Lakes It

question 1

Multiple Choice

When runoff containing excessive nutrients enters streams and lakes it can result in an overgrowth of cyanobacteria and algae, a process known as

• A) eutrophication.
• B) oxidation.
• C) fixation.
• D) ammonification.
• E) both ammonification and fixation.

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Standard Deviation

A measure of the dispersion or variability within a dataset, indicating how spread out the values are from the mean.

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