The Role of Minerals in Healthy Bone Tissue and Osteoporosis Risk

Water is essential for survival. It is important to understand the factors that affect water balance and the best sources to help an individual meet daily water requirements.

Select all the sentences below that correctly describe water.

1-Sweating during exercise is considered insensible water loss.
2-Water helps maintain body temperature.
3-Diuretics like alcohol and some medications can cause the body to lose water.
4-Caffeinated drinks like coffee or tea cannot count toward an individual’s daily fluid needs.
5-Foods like bread or crackers do not contribute to total water intake

Explanation:

estuaries are the partially enclosed coastal bodies of brackish water formed at the mouth of sea where river meets an ocean. it is a transition zone between river and sea water so estuaries are influenced to both marine environment such as tides, waves and to riverine such as flow of fresh water and sediments. the mixing of sea and fresh water provide high level of nutrients, making estuaries a high product habitats.

many estuaries suffers degradation from a variety of human activities like erosion from deforestation, overgrazing, overfishing, drainage and eutrophication.

so from the above statement answers will be

1. false as estuaries are formed due to both brackish and freshwater.

2.true, due to high productivity estuaries are breeding ground for many marine species.

3. direct and indirect activities of man that contribute to pollution and deposition of sediments.