Which choice is an example of an effect of agricultural techniques on the environment?

Soil and loose particles can wash off farmland into nearby water, where they settle and build up as sediment. Thus, sediment accumulation in a lake near a farm is an environmental effect of agricultural techniques. Fertilizer runoff typically contributes to excess plant or algal growth and can lower oxygen levels, not increase them; herbicides are designed to reduce unwanted plant growth.

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