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BIOGRAPHY OF A RIVER

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G. Why are trout usually found only in mountain streams?H. Discuss how warm water animals, such as manatees, tend to congregate aroundpower plant discharges. Also discuss how this affects them. (They get stuck inpipes and are cut up or killed by blades.)IV. ExtensionsAsk students to research the following:A. Optimum water temperatures and oxygen levels needed by different species ofgame and non-game fish.B. How the temperatures and oxygen levels determined in A. affect thermal pollutionregulations for different stream classifications.RESOURCESArms, Karen, Environmental Science, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, Inc., Austin, TX, 1996.Chiras, Daniel D., Environmental Science, High School Edition, Addison-Wesley,Menlo Park, CA 1989.Nebel, Bernard J. and Richard T. Wright, Environmental Science: The Way The World Works,4th Edition, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1993.3-94

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