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Lake inputs

How inputs from the lake sink to the bottom and become sediments

Dead plants and organisms – for example, bacteria, algae, fish and zooplankton – that once lived in the lake sink to the bottom where they start breaking down.

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Lake inputs illustration by Lakes380 is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

 

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