Uranium mining makes extensive use of groundwater to process the uranium. Which of these is the most likely effect of large scale uranium mining in a location which depends on groundwater for its domestic and agricultural needs? long periods of drought

flooding of low lands

heating up of tap water

severe shortage of drinking water

Cladistics is a way of classifying organisms by examining the characteristics of their ancestors and descendants and depicting the relationships in a cladogram. which of the following best describes a challenge in classifying organisms this way? a. there are millions of species on earth, and a cladogram is not a practical means for classifying all of them. b. it is impossible to tell which organisms are most closely related to each other using a cladogram. c. cladograms are detail-oriented and do not provide a useful understanding of evolutionary relationships. d. there is a limited number of ways to organize the information, so most cladograms end up looking very similar.