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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.
All food chains show that the matter and energy in a food chain?
Decrease in higher levels.
How does the NCO support channel function at the battalion and higher levels?
It functions as the communication and supervision chain.
What term is used to describe poisons that accumulate in the food chain?
Biomagnification
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).
Why don't pollutants build up as you go up trophic levels?
Pollutants often bioaccumulate in organisms at lower trophic levels, but they can also become diluted as they move up the food chain. While some pollutants, particularly persistent organic pollutants, can biomagnify and increase in concentration at higher trophic levels, this is not the case for all pollutants. Additionally, energy transfer between trophic levels is inefficient, leading to fewer organisms at higher levels, which can limit the overall concentration of pollutants. Environmental processes, such as degradation and dilution, also help mitigate pollutant accumulation at higher trophic levels.
What is the process where pollution levels increase through the food chain?
This process is known as biomagnification. It occurs when pollutants accumulate in organisms at higher trophic levels, causing a concentration increase along the food chain. This can lead to harmful effects on top predators due to the accumulation of toxins in their bodies.
A word that means build up of toxins in large predators through the food chain?
Biomagnification is the process where toxins accumulate in higher trophic levels of a food chain. This occurs when predators consume prey that have absorbed or accumulated toxic substances. Over time, the concentration of toxins increases as they move up the food chain, posing a risk to top predators.
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.
Explain why animals at the top of the food chain are particulary at risk from poisons in the environment?
Mainly the buck stops there
Why must animals high on the food chain eat many organisms at lower levels?
It is important for an organism to belong to a lower trophic level because the lower levels receive more energy for their food. Organisms on the higher levels also rely on all the lower levels.
