Eutrophication: The enrichment of a water body with excess nutrients (nitrogen and phosphorus) that triggers algal blooms, oxygen depletion, and aquatic dead zones.
How to apply it: Use eutrophication to explain how agricultural fertilizer runoff creates the Gulf of Mexico dead zone.
Course: AP Environmental Science · Unit: Aquatic and Terrestrial Pollution
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