Trophic Levels
The position an organism fills in its food web is
What is a trophic level?
Producers living in the photic zone capture sunlight to create food in a process called
What is photosynthesis?
One way toxins enter the ocean is through
What is boats, pollution, mercury, agriculture, and more?
An example of biomagnification is
What is mercury build up, ciguatera fish poisoning, or PCBs?
Trophic level one contains
What is primary producers?
Oxygen (O2) is released in a process called
What is photosynthesis?
Toxins that are what are harder to excrete
What is fat soluble?
Microplastics can absorb toxins from
What is the water?
Primary producers are
What are plants and algae who make their own food?
Carbon Dioxide (CO2) is absorbed in a process called
What is photosynthesis?
Water soluble toxins can be excreted through
What is urine?
What is microplastics?
Trophic levels rarely reach levels higher than 5 due to
What is energy loss?
The energy stored in bonds of atoms and molecules is called
What is chemical energy?
The buildup within an individual over time, as they accumulate a substance faster than they can excrete it is called
What is bioaccumulation?
What enters the atmosphere through volcanic eruptions and burning fossil fuels (mainly coal)
What is mercury?
Typically, about what percent of energy is transferred from one trophic level to the next
What is 10 percent?
Sugars are passed up the food chain to consumers and broken down in a process called
What is respiration?
An increase in concentration of toxic substances with each step of the food web is called
What is biomagnification?
Biomagnification is the increasing concentration of toxic in
What is the tissues of organisms at higher trophic levels?