The growth of phytoplankton has cut off the supply of light to underwater grasses. ... Polluted stormwater runoff has become an increasing problem because much land around the bay has changed from the natural filters of forests and wetlands to poorly managed farmland, construction sites, city streets, and suburban communities. ... A well managed farms send ten times the amount of sediment into the Bay as a forest. A construction site can send a thousand times as much sediment as a forest. ...

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When the sun emits its light energy, the earth absorbs it and warms the earth, this heat is supposed to be reradiated back into space but because of these green houses gases, the heat is trapped on earth, which in turn drastically changes the climate. ... Some future problems that can occur are decrease level of sea ice, contraction of snow covered areas,hot extremes, heat waves and heavy precipitation, precipitation in high latitudes and a decrease of precipitation in tropical rain forests, decrease of water resources in dry areas due to the evaporation of water. ...

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If all of the water in the world could be poured into one bucket, only one teaspoon of that water would be drinkable. In fact, the scarcity of clean drinking water is responsible for the deaths of 2,000 children a day; dehydration and poor sanitation. In the US, nearly 50% of water usage is devo...

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An ecological niche can be defined as the way of life of an organism in it's ecosystem, which allow it to survive and live successfully. 1Each of the three plant groups listed above have different ecological niches for example: xerophytes are able to survive in dry and humid conditions such as deserts, mesophytes can survive in habitats that experience both wet and dry conditions such as fields, meadows or shaded areas such as forests and hydrophytes are adapted to survive in aquatic environments where there is lots of water such as ponds. 2The xerophyte that I will be discussing in my re...

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