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When poisons build up in higher levels in a food chain what terms is used?
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Biomagnification
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What is it called when poisons become more concentrated in animal tissue as they move higher through the food chain?
Biomagnification
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.
How does the NCO support channel function at the battalion and higher levels?
It functions as the communication and supervision chain.
All food chains show that the matter and energy in a food chain?
Decrease in higher levels.
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).
What term is used to describe poisons that accumulate in the food chain?
Biomagnification
What is the process where pollution levels increase through the food chain?
increase in concentration of a pollutant from one link in a food chain to another. Biomagnification is the bioaccumulation of a substance up the food chain by transfer of residues of the substance in smaller organisms that are food for larger organisms in the chain. It generally refers to the sequence of processes that results in higher concentrations in organisms at higher levels in Biomagnification: the food chain (at higher trophic levels). These processes result in an organism having higher concentrations of a substance than is present in the organism's food. Biomagnification can result in higher concentrations of the substance than would be expected if water were the only exposure mechanism. Accumulation of a substance only through contact with water is known as bioconcentration..
Explain the reason that eating lower on a food chain provides more food energy that eating higher on the food chain?
Biomass refers to the food available for the next trophic level in a food chain. There is a higher biomass on the lower levels of the food chain, hence eating on those levels would provide more food energy.
What is the process concentrations of harmful substances increase in organisms at higher tropic levels in a food chain known as?
biological magnification -teddybearr
Why do fish at the top level of the food chain have higher concentrations of methylmercury than fish in lower levels?
I was actually wondering that myself.
What is the causes of biomagnifiction?
Biomagnification: increase in concentration of a pollutant from one link in a food chain to another. Biomagnification is the bioaccumulation of a substance up the food chain by transfer of residues of the substance in smaller organisms that are food for larger organisms in the chain. It generally refers to the sequence of processes that results in higher concentrations in organisms at higher levels in the food chain (at higher trophic levels). These processes result in an organism having higher concentrations of a substance than is present in the organism's food. Biomagnification can result in higher concentrations of the substance than would be expected if water were the only exposure mechanism. Accumulation of a substance only through contact with water is known as bioconcentration..good Luck
Explain why animals at the top of the food chain are particulary at risk from poisons in the environment?
Mainly the buck stops there
