On the basis of the article above, indicate one human activity that releases mercury into the environment. Describe how mercury is transported from that source and enters aquatic systems, often hundreds of miles away.?

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Braydon Mathews

15 February, 08:31

On the basis of the article above, indicate one human activity that releases mercury into the environment. Describe how mercury is transported from that source and enters aquatic systems, often hundreds of miles away.?

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Ellen Villarreal · Answer 1

On the basis of the article above, indicate one human activity that releases mercury into the environment.

One of the human activity that releases mercury into the environment is the burning of fossil fuels, such as coal.

Describe how mercury is transported from that source and enters aquatic systems, often hundreds of miles away.?

Mercury particles are transported through the water cycle because once the particles are in the atmosphere, they move with clouds far away from the source and fall into water when it rainsfalls, in order words they falls with rain or a precipitation into water or onto soil