Answer:
The Clean Water Act (CWA) can be considered as one of the effective program which impacted the water quality in the United States. Under this Act, quality standards for surface water were generated.
This Act has set wastewater standards for the industries and it ensures that industries do not pollute the clean water. The Clean Water Act (ACT) made it unlawful to discharge any pollutant in waters and set a fixed amount for it. Beyond that amount, polluting water is considered to be illegal.
The sun provides the energy for photosynthesis. Cells use sugar as a source of energy. The products of cellular respiration are CO2 and H2O. These products are used by plants to make sugar and oxygen through photosynthesis.
Besides wildfires, human settlements affect neighboring ecosystems through biotic processes, including exotic species introduction, wildlife subsidization, disease transfer, landcover conversion, fragmentation, and habitat loss.
Answer: option A - threat, after habitat loss, to native species of plants and animals and to the maintenance of biologically diverse ecosystems
Explanation:
Invasive species refers to organisms that appears at a particular habitat that has just undergone an environmental unfavorable condition.
These INVASIVE SPECIES poses THREAT to the native organisms, because they usually possess:
better resistance to disease,
higher reproductive rate, etc.
So, even when native organisms migrate or dies, Invasive species REMAINS. As a result, they threaten the maintenance of a biologically diverse ecosystem
