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What term is used to describe poisons that accumulate in the food chain?
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Biomagnification
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Explain what happens to environmental poisons as you move up the food chain?
They accumulate as you move up the food chain because,They travel from organism to organism.For example,it may enter a food chain when it's absorbed by a plankton,and the pollutant is passed on to which ever organism eats the plankton,and it keeps on going on. By The Way,the person who just answered this is in gr.7 my name is ar$h!
When poisons build up in higher levels in a food chain what terms is used?
Biomagnification
Describe two kinds of bacterial poisons?
One of them is food poisoning, and shigella poisoning
Explain why animals at the top of the food chain are particulary at risk from poisons in the environment?
Mainly the buck stops there
What are economic importance of snakes?
Snakes are part of the food chain. The rat population would grow without them, then more sells would occur for rat poisons. Look at the food chain aspect.
What is it called when poisons become more concentrated in animal tissue as they move higher through the food chain?
Biomagnification
How do you describe a food chain that involves you?
You put yourself on top
Describe a food chain that was not presented in this section?
the second oder consumer
What are the poisons in organic food?
In foods grown organically, there are no poisons.
How do toxins build up in food chain?
The toxins which are built up in food chain are the toxins which consist of heavy metals such as led, cadmium, mercury. since most of the agrochemicals contain these heavy metals, they tend to accumulate in the food chain. Once a heavy metal get into a body of an animal, it will be deposited in fat tissues thus it cannot be eliminated therefore with increase intake of those heavy metals ,more and more heavy metals accumulate in the food chain. Apart from those toxins food cantain naturally occurring toxins as well.
Why animals at the top of a food chain are particularly at risk from poison in the environment?
This is biological magnification; the concentration of poison in the environment gets higher and higher as it goes up the food chain. The poisons are kept in the bodies of the animals that eat them. They are not broken down or eliminated. So a predator that is higher up the chain gets a lot of the poison from its food. -Shawney M.
A food chain is the movement of food?
the best way for me to describe a food chain is with a diagram: so the shark eats the dalphin, whch eats the tuna, ect.SHARKdalphinTUNAsaler fishMICRO INVERDIBRITS underwater plants
