Chesapeake bay is an area that has suffered from overharvesting and eutrophication. Eutrophication is an enrichment of water by nutrients salts that causes structural changes in the ecosystem such as increased formation of algae and aquatic plants, depletion of fish species among other effects. The greatest source of nitrogen and phosphorus in a Chesapeake bay is agriculture
Answer:
It requires energy
Explanation:
In the coupled transport system, coupled carriers couple the inward transport of one solute across the membrane to the outward transport of other solutes across the membrane. The tight bonding that occurs between the transport of two solutes allows these carriers to utilize the energy stored in one solute, usually an ion, to facilitate transport of the other. With this way, the free energy released during the movement of an ion down an electrochemical gradient is utilized as the driving force to transport other solutes inwards, against their electrochemical gradient.
