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It is water leaving farm fields, in the form of rain or any other liquid effect and collecting animal waste, excess fertilizers and draining into and polluting streams and rivers. It endangers the water supplies for humans and the eco-systems
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How do you use the word runoff in a sentence?
The runoff from the farm polluted the stream.
Fertilizer runoff from a farm is an example of what?
nonpoint source pollution
Which is an example of non point source of freshwater pollution?
pesticide runoff from farm fields
What type of runoff would you find pesticides in?
lakes/rivers/lakes/dams/drinking reservoirs/ Regarding actual types of runoff, pesticides would most likely be found in farm and agricultural runoff resulting from ploughed furrows between crops.
Water in the Arctic ocean has more dissolved oxygen than water in the Gulf of Mexico because?
Less farm and industrial runoff reaches such sea: farm runoff - with high quantities of fertilizer - provides the development of oxygen-consuming algae, which depletes the oxygen and kills marine life.
What is snowmelt runoff?
Runoff is water that flows over the ground surface. Snowmelt runoff is runoff from melting snow.
Glacial runoff and what else provides water to the large rivers of India?
Runoff from rain and runoff from melting snow (which is NOT the same as glacial runoff).
What are the two types of runoff?
Surface runoff and Subsurface runoff. Basically, above ground and below ground
Use runoff in a sentence?
New construction allowed runoff from hillsides which flooded basements in nearby homes.Runoff naturally seeks a path of least resistance.Continual runoff can undermine hills, leading to mudslides and ground failures.
What is construction runoff?
runoff caused by construction working
Does the causes of acid rain include runoff from cars?
acid rain comes from chemicals in the clouds, not runoff there is no "car runoff" runoff is from the slanted ground into water bodies
That water that moves across Earths surface after rainfall is called what?
runoff
