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• How big is the Bay?
• How many kinds (species) of plants and animals live in the Bay?
• How many people live in the Bay watershed?
• Won't all those people living in the watershed have a large impact on the Bay?
• Isn't trash the largest pollution problem in the Bay today?
• Don't plants need nutrients to grow?
• Do the algae blooms cause other problems?
• Why are submerged aquatic plants so important to the health of the Bay?
• The State of Maryland recently pledged to plant trees on 600 miles of streams in Maryland by the year 2010. What is that all about?

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