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By eating other animals and getting their DDT up higher.
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∙ 12y agoPlants absorb substances from their environment. If there is a pollutant in the soil, or the water where a plant is growing, it will be absorbed into the plant.
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∙ 11y agoBecause food can pollut the earth or area 7th grade answer from parkwood middle school (ucps)
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How can pollutants affects organisms?
Pollutants settle in the soil, and they are absorbed by plants and build up in other organisms through the food chain.
An accumulation of pollutants at successive levels of the food chain is called?
Bioaccumulation
Why are some pollutants more harmful to organisms at higher trophic levels?
Higher trophic levels are animals that are higher up on the food chain. When animals lower on the food chain get effected by pollutants, it transfers to the animal that eats that one. And so on. So the animals on the higher trophic level eat the most animals(animals with the pollutants).
Which type of pollutant is more concentrated near the top of a food chain?
Nonbiogradable pollutants
Four environmental pollutio and its pollutants?
Biological Decomposition of Environmental Pollutants-Biodegradable Pollutants such as plastic bags. Some of the most notable air pollutants are sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide, ozone, volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and airborne particles, with radioactive pollutants probably among the most destructive ones (specifically when produced by nuclear explosions). Our Air Pollutants article provides a clear overview of sources and effects of these air pollutants. Water pollutants include insecticides and herbicides, food processing waste, pollutants from livestock operations, volatile organic compounds (VOCs), heavy metals, chemical waste and others. Some soil pollutants are: hydrocarbons, solvents and heavy metals.
Which potential biological food safety hazard does smoking in food storage an prep areas cause?
saliva an get on the food handlers hands
Why is pollution bad for human health?
Pollutants dumped into the air can eventually get into your body when you eat, drink and breathe. Pollutants in the air fall to earth with the rain drops and snow flakes. The pollutants then become more and more concentrated by biomagnification as they move up the food chain to you.
Do pollutants like mercury increase as they move up the food chain?
It should progressively diminish.
What are secondary pollutants and how do they form.?
secondary pollutants are pollutants that form when primary pollutants react with other primary pollutants or with naturally occurring substances
What are ozone and smog pollutants?
Yes they are pollutants. They are secondary pollutants.
What is a harmful substance added to the environment?
The general term for it is environmental pollution.
What is the difference between secondary and primary pollutants?
Some Primary pollutants are like when humans directly put them in the air Secondary pollutants are like when pollutants react with Primary and other Primary pollutants.
