OBJECTIVE LIFE SCIENCE
ECOLOGY
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Question
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A strip mining company wants to lease some land that is currently part of a national park. They promise to reclaim the land should any minerals be mined from the area, and they are willing to pay top dollar for the rights. As an ecologist, what factors would you raise with the local government?
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the threat to local biodiversity
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management of the land after the company leaves
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the new jobs that would be created
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the increased traffic in the area
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -reduce the use of nonrenewable resources. increase the rate of air pollution. reduce the rate of homeostasis in organisms.
Detailed explanation-2: -Salt water is an abundant resource but unusable for irrigation and drinking. As demands on freshwater sources increase, the use of desalination processes to remove salt from ocean water is increasing. A concern of desalinating water is the large amounts of recovered salts that are returned to the ocean.
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