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Toxicology
Mercury and other chemicals
Food Chains
Trophic Pyramid
Bioaccumulation, etc.
100
Give an example of something that is toxic.
What is bleach, water, sugar. Everything.
100
In what country was there a company that dumped large amounts of mercury into the water.
What is Japan.
100
What provides all energy to any ecosystem?
What is the sun.
100
What types of organisms are on the bottom of a trophic pyramid?
What is producers.
100
The name of the chemical that was poisoning eagles.
What is DDT
200
What does it mean to be exposed to a toxin?
What is when you come into contact with the toxin.
200
What is the name of the type of enzyme that the liver uses to break down toxins?
What is cP450
200
What is the role of a decomposer?
What is to break down and recycle nutrients.
200
What do we use mercury for?
What is batteries, tooth fillings, thermometers, gold mining.
200
What part of the eagle's life cycle did DDT affect?
What is reproductive. Fragile eggs.
300
The definition of toxicology.
What is study of the harmful effects of a substance on people, animals, and the environment.
300
What is the relationship between dose and response?
What is higher dose=more response.
300
Give an example of a primary consumer
What is rabbit, deer. Any herbivore.
300
Give an example of a producer
What is grass, trees. Any plant.
300
List 3 examples of abiotic factors.
What is rocks, sun, air, water.
400
What are the routes of exposure to a toxin?
What is inhalation, absorption, ingestion.
400
What is DDT used for?
What is an insecticide.
400
Define a carnivore.
What is an organism that only eats meat.
400
Which level of a trophic pyramid would contain the lease amount of energy?
What is the bottom (producer) level.
400
Give an example of bioaccumulation.
What is anything that accumulates in the body of one organism (answers may vary).
500
Why is Tylenol toxic for cats but not for humans?
What is cats do not have the enzymes needed to metabolize Tylenol.
500
Name two symptoms of mercury poisoning.
What is convulsions, loss of balance, loss of coordination.
500
Define an omnivore AND give an example.
What is something that eats meat and plants. Bears, wolves, humans.
500
Describe the difference between abiotic and biotic factors.
What is abiotic factors are living things and biotic factors are non-living things.
500
Give an example of biomagnification.
What is anything that goes up the food chain (answers may vary)