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What happens to the concentration of toxins as you move up the food chain?
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Explain how energy is transferred through a food chain?
Energy is transferred through a food chain when an organism eats another organism. As the food chain progresses, less energy is available when an organism is consumed.
What Energy-rich food compound that stores chemical energy?
food chain
What is the laboratory method used to determine the concentration of an acid?
A TITRATION is a laboratory method used to determine the concentration of an acid or a food in a solution.
What happens with the food in the stomach?
It dissolves the food
Drinking or eating in a laboratory is discouraged mainly because .?
laboratory toxins can enter the body through food or liquid
In a food pyramid where are most of the toxins found?
The top of the food chain. As organisms consume other organisms, the toxins are all passed up in the food chain. Therefore, the top of the food chain will have the highest concentration of toxins.
Definition of bioaccumulation?
The building up (concentration) of toxins in a food chain. For a visual definition, see the attached image below.
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.
How would a chart showing the concentration of toxins differ from a biological pyramid of biomass for the same food chain?
i believe the concentration becomes greater as you move up the food chain, or up the biomass pyramid, meaning that the highest level of consumer has the highest amount of toxicity. I always thought it was the other way around but I've done some research and that's what I found.
What happens if a food chain changeS?
no
What happens to the biomass as you move up the food chain?
Biomass accumulates Think of it as a pyramid If the animals at the bottom consume a little then the next step up will have a little more in them because they just absorbed all of it when you get to the top you will have the highest concentration in the entire food chain.
What happens when a food chain breaks down?
when a food chain breaks down, the animals above will not have enough food
What happens to the producer in a food pyramid?
top of the food chain
Why toxins increase in concentration at each successive tropic level ina food chain?
With the increase of the tropic level, there is a loss of energy. It is averaged that each organism consumes 10% of the energy from the organism that it eats. Because of this loss of energy, the animals at the higher tropic levels eat more, and hence, eat more toxins. The toxins accumulate in the fat of the animals, and just continue to increase.
What happens if a component is left out of the food chain?
If a component is left out of the food chain then something will not be able to eat it. Then it will die, and the component above it in the food chain will not be able to eat it, and will die. Basically, if a component is left out of the food chain, the food chain collapses.
A word that means build up of toxins in large predators through the food chain?
This is called the "multiplier effect"
What happens to the other predators in food chain?
They die
