Question

Water Quality 17 Eutrophication of a water body such as a lake is best described as Select one: a. declining levels of buffering of pH due to acid rain input b. high levels of nutrients N and P stimulating algal and plant growth leading to a rapid increase in decaying organic matter. c. increased turbidity (cloudiness) due to sediment disturbance ed. removal of nutrients N and P from the water by incorporation into plant tissue or bottom sediments e. depletion in dissolved oxygen supply due to lack of turbulence in quiescent waters

Answer 1

Ans.(b)

Eutrophication is a process in which Lake receives nutrition like Phosphorus and nitrogen and sediment from the surrounding watershed and become more fertile and shallow..this addition of nutrition causes agal boom..

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