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Answer:
The correct answer is E.They retain water to prevent flooding and erosion.
Explanation:
Rain forests are used to be very dense forests where lots of raining takes place. The forest floor can soak up lots of rain and during flood dense forest with woodland trees do not allow water to run fast through them thereby reducing flood's effect significantly.
The roots of the trees in the forest binds to the soil on the floor and prevent soil erosion during flooding. Study shows that water retention is more in summer than in winters. Forest can store lots of water and transfer it to the streams which is helpful in providing clean water to the people in dry season.
Therefore, the correct answer is E. They retain water to prevent flooding and erosion.
Access to clean water and sanitation of waste
Answer:
b. Small stagnant pools do not provide enough water to dilute ammonia, which is toxic.
Explanation:
Amongst urinary waste products which are ammonia, urea and uric acid, ammonia is the most toxic, then comes urea which is mildly toxic while uric acid is the least toxic. Various organisms excrete these urinary wastes as per their habitat/adaptations. These waste products have some advantages and some disadvantages over each other. For example, ammonia is extremely toxic so it cannot be retained in the body for a longer time but it requires very less energy to produce ammonia than to produce urea that is why most of the aquatic animals excrete ammonia as urinary waste to save their energy and keep on urinating frequently because they live in water all the time. In a large water pool, excreting this ammonia does not cause toxicity because it gets diluted in the surrounding easily.
In contrast to this, land inhabiting animals like mammals prefer to excrete urea as urinary waste even if they have to spend more energy/ATP to convert ammonia into urea with the help of urea cycle. Land animals have to retain urinary waste products in their body for a longer time as compared to aquatic animals and this is the reason why they urinate less frequently because urea being less toxic can be retained in the body for a longer time.
But african lungfish is an exception to other aquatic animals when it comes to producing urinary waste because they live in small stagnant pools of fresh water and if they will excrete ammonia as waste it will make the habitat toxic leading to their death.
