You’ve learned that dissolved substances and pollution are carried downstream in a watershed.
Pollution carried by the warm freshwater river plume can affect marine life off the New Jersey coast.
If pollution persists in shallow bays for a long time, a process may occur that creates areas with very low oxygen. Marine life need oxygen in the water in order to survive.
Let’s investigate the conditions that might cause this to occur…
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