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Explain how the process of eutrophication can happen in a stream - 1

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Overuse of nitrates/fertilisers
Nitrates leach out of soil by rain water where they then dissolve in rain water
Nitrates dissolved in rain water move into streams

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Explain how the process of eutrophication can happen in a stream - 2

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Algae then grows rapidly
Plants underneath surface cannot grow and photosynthesise
These underwater plants die and no oxygen is produced