Question

You and your friends go to the beach for vacation. You all walk down to the beach to go swimming. When you get there, you see the water is murky and green, and there are algae blooms floating on top. If it is excess nutrients which are feeding the algae blooms and lowering the oxygen content in the water, that process is called:_______.a. nutrient cycling.

b. nitrification.
c. eutrophication.
d. hypoxia.

Answer 1

Answer: The process is called EUTROPHICATION. The correct option is C.

Step-by-step explanation:

Eutrophication is a type of environmental pollution where by there is an increase in nutrient salts of a water body which can lead to structural changes in the affected aquatic ecosystem. These changes includes:

--> Increase in production of algae: this effect causes algae blooms which makes the water murky, greenish and unpleasant for certain activities such as swimming.

--> Decrease in aquatic life: the presence of excessive growth of algae which are often degraded by microorganisms. When the rate of degradation of the algae by microorganisms is greater than that of oxygen regeneration a hypoxic state occurs which is harmful to aquatic life example fishes.