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What is it called when pesticides enter waterways from run off?
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Why would water plants contain DDT?
Some of the pesticides sprayed on farm crops wash off in the rain and get into the waterways. The water plants absorb the pesticides.
How do pesticides get into rain?
Rainwater dissolving pesticides when running off farm-land is the main cause.
What is one off the navigable waterways in Europe?
Panama Canal
What is riparian planting?
Riparian planting is re establishing vegetation in the riparian area bordering waterways. This helps reduce erosion and the run off of pollutants in the waterways.
How do pesticides get in our streams and rivers?
Farmers and gardeners spray pesticides on various plants, and when it rains, some of the pesticide washes off and is carried away by any run-off, which eventually drains into streams and rivers.
What is the problem of using pesticides to kill off pests?
you could get really sick.
How do you keep the cucumber beetle off squash without pesticides?
Tweezers.Pesticides were invented for a reason.
Which is an example of a nonpoint source of freshwater polluiton?
Pesticides run off from farm fields.
What are the two large sets of branches that come off the trachea and enter the lungs called?
Primary brochi first enter the lungs on both the left and right sides.
What kind of run-off are pesticides in?
Many different types of situations could have run-offs of pesticides. Most of these are found on farms when they are sprayed to reduce the amounts of insects in the soil.
How do pesticides get into ponds?
Rain water washes it off whatever people put it on and gravity leads it to water.
Is there any warnings on strawberries?
No. The only warning there should be is to earn you to wash the pesticides off of them before you eat them, but it's not there.
