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?
Early whales moved from terrestrial to aquatic environments
Hand mnemonic for the basic atmosphere composition being 4/5 nitrogen and 1/5 oxygen.
Pneumonia patient’s chest x-ray. Note the irregular areas of density.
Rising sea level: Some areas will be affected by a rise of just 40 cm
Large areas of permafrost are melting
Protein Needs Are Determined by Nitrogen Balance in Your Body