eutrophication
Definition
Slow aging process during which a bay, estuary, lake, river, stream, or other shallow body of water deteriorates into a bog or marsh, and eventually 'dies.' Nutritive pollution (containing nitrogen and phosphorous compounds) generated by human activities is a major factor in eutrophication because it causes an explosive growth of algae. Decaying algae consumes the oxygen dissolved in water, thus suffocating fish and other aquatic plant and animal life.
eutrophication is in the Environment & Pollution Control subject.
eutrophication appears in the definition of the following term: nitrate pollution
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