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no longer stratified, it takes very little energy to completely -----------mix the water in the lake from top to bottom. Wind, rain,
and temperature fluctuations are all it takes to start the The Maine School of Science and Mathematics (MSSM)
spring turnover.
is a tuition-free, public, residential high school that enrolls
students from across the state and serves over 500 students
The spring turnover can be easily visualized with a simple each year through its academic and summer offerings.
experiment. Imagine you have two glasses. In the first glass, Opened in 1995, the school provides high school students a
you have oil floating on water, just like the epilimnion floats rigorous