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← HistoryWhich risk increased within chinampa agriculture due to intensive maize cultivation around Tenochtitlan?
A)Reduced soil salinity from rainfall
B)Altered lake currents from island growth
C)Aquifer depletion from irrigation pumps
D)Eutrophication from nutrient runoff✓
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When intensive maize cultivation occurred on chinampas, nutrient runoff increased because high-density planting accelerated soil erosion, causing excess nitrogen and phosphorus to enter the surrounding lake waters, accelerating eutrophication. Therefore, eutrophication risk arose, rather than reduced salinity or altered currents, whose mechanisms are unrelated to cultivation methods.
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