A dead zone refers to
A) terrestrial areas in which excessive nitrogen fertilizer has essentially burned the soil, preventing plants and microorganisms from living there.
B) an ecosystem that was cleared of all vegetation for slash and burn agriculture.
C) hypoxic areas in water bodies that limit marine and aquatic life.
D) oligotrophic areas in water bodies that cannot support life due to lack of nutrients.
Question 2
Why do continental locations usually have greater extremes of temperature than do maritime locations at the same latitude?
What will be an ideal response?
Terrestrial plants and animals can be characterized by analogous pathways for water gain and loss.
Nitrogen fluxes in Sycamore Creek, Arizona (data from Grimm 1988).
El Niño and areas of high marine primary production around the Galapagos Islands. Noti
Primary visual processing areas (blue) in (a) human (lateral and mesial views) and (b) chimpanzee.
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