The role plants play in a healthy aquatic ecosystem - ✔✔ correct answer producing oxygen for other
organism in the lake.
The role plants play in a healthy aquatic ecosystem - ✔✔ correct answer preventing shoreline erosion
The role plants play in a healthy aquatic ecosystem - ✔✔ correct answer lessening access nutrients
during the growing season
The role plants play in a healthy aquatic ecosystem - ✔✔ correct answer stabilizing the lake bottom
The role plants play in a healthy aquatic ecosystem - ✔✔ correct answer providing food and habitat for
fish, waterfowl, and other aquatic animals
ways the excessive plant growth can adversely affect the ecology and uses of a body of water - ✔✔
correct answer harm the ecology of the aquatic ecosystem
ways the excessive plant growth can adversely affect the ecology and uses of a body of water - ✔✔
correct answer curtail or prevent recreational water uses (swimming, boating, and fishing.)
ways the excessive plant growth can adversely affect the ecology and uses of a body of water - ✔✔
correct answer impart tastes or odors to the drinking water supply
ways the excessive plant growth can adversely affect the ecology and uses of a body of water - ✔✔
correct answer hamper water treatment operations
ways the excessive plant growth can adversely affect the ecology and uses of a body of water - ✔✔
correct answer adversely affect aesthetics, resort trade, and water front property values
ways the excessive plant growth can adversely affect the ecology and uses of a body of water - ✔✔
correct answer produce toxins that harm animals that drink the water.
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emergent aquatic plants - ✔✔ correct answer rooted in relatively shallow water so that most of their
growth extends above the water line.
they spread by an underground root system and new emergent plants can occur anywhere in the
network.
can out-compete beneficial native vegetation in wetlands and along shorelines.
submergent aquatic plants - ✔✔ correct answer grow primarily under the water surface
submergent aquatic plants: pondweed - ✔✔ correct answer has extensive root systems and runners so
that new growth can develop vegetatively- meaning new growth sprouts up from roots and runners - as
well as from seed.
not normally a nuisance unless it is curlyleaf or sago.
submergent aquatic plants: whirled leaves - ✔✔ correct answer if uprooted they can break free and drift
in the wind.
it can adversely affect fish and waterfowl habitat and severely restrict boating and swimming due to its
thick foliage and rapid growth.
floating-leaves aquatic plants - ✔✔ correct answer occur on the water surface
floating-leaves aquatic plants: free- floating plants - ✔✔ correct answer easily widblown
these plants are very difficult to control in large bodies of water.
floating-leaves aquatic plants: rooted plants - ✔✔ correct answer these plants provide valuable cover for
fish and are only rarely a nuisance problem.
algae - ✔✔ correct answer primitive, simple plants without stems, leaves, or a water - and food -
conducting vascular system. they can be found floating or attached to submerged surfaces in lakes,
ponds, and streams.
algae: free- floating - ✔✔ correct answer all surface water are able to provide ample quantities of most
of the nutrients required by blue- green algae.