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B. improved ecosystem health
Explanation;
-Surface mining is a method of extracting minerals near the surface of the Earth. The three most common types of surface mining are open-pit mining, strip mining, and quarrying.
-The environmental impact of mining includes erosion, formation of sinkholes, loss of biodiversity, and contamination of soil, groundwater, and surface water by chemicals from mining processes.The environmental effects of surface mining include;
- Habitat destruction
- Soil erosion
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Air pollution from dust particulates
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Pollution (especially from sediments)
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All surface mining techniques negatively affect the environment, though some methods are more damaging than others.
Biotic factors are anything in a ecosystem that is living, was living, or is going to live.
From this we can conclude that the biotic factors are remains of dead organisms and flora and fauna.
Temperature and minerals in the soil are abiotic, meaning they will never live.
Answer:Traits are determined by genes, and also they are determined by the interaction with the environment with genes. And remember that genes are the messages in our DNA that define individual characteristics. So the trait is the manifestation of the product of a gene that is coded for by the DNA.
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