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Ecology Test Part 1
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Question 1 (6 points)
A farmer has been placing a certain chemical pesticide on his corn crop for the past 10 years. The pesticide
contains chemicals that have lots of nitrogen-based and phosphorus-based compounds. Over the past
couple of years, the farmer has been noticing that the pond near his farm is beginning to grow massive algae
blooms! He has contacted you to help him solve this problem. A.) Based on your knowledge of
biogeochemical cycles what do you think is the cause of this problem? B.) How do you think this will affect
the food chain/web in the pond? C.) What do you think the farmer could do to turn this problem around, if
anything? D.) How do you think the chemical contaminate got into the water supply?

Answer 1

C but not totally sure but I hope I'm right though I wanna help

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