Bioaccumulation/Biomagnification Quiz

When you consume an organism, you only receive 10% of the energy, but how much of the toxins do you receive? (a)  

• All of the toxins
• 10% toxins
• 1% toxins
• None of the toxins

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What are examples of toxins? (choose all that apply)

• water

• salt

• pesticides

• mercury

• insecticides

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In which organism would biomagnification be the most concentrated? (Remember the lab: Rabbits eat the grass, the snake eats the rabbit, the hawk eats the snake--the hawk is the apex predator) (a)  

• grass
• rabbit
• snake
• hawk

Which organism would have the most bioaccumulation? (a)  

• eucalyptus tree
• wombats
• kookaburras
• koalas

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In what year were the most toxins present in smallmouth bass?

Mathematical Equivalence

ON

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Pesticides and herbicides eventually show up in higher-level consumers (i.e. as you go up the food chain) due to (a)  

• biomagnification
• climate change
• habitat destruction
• bioaccumulation

Toxin concentrations (a)   as you go up the food chain.

• do not change
• increase
• decrease

Which consumer is the most affected by toxins like mercury? (a)  

• Primary Consumer
• Secondary Consumer
• Apex Predator
• Producers

"Only humans make waste nature cannot digest." What did the captain mean by this?

• Nature cannot recycle or reuse much of the trash humans produce.

• Nature is great at recycling or reusing most of the trash humans produce.

• Humans are poor at recycling.

• Humans are poor at disposing of trash.

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Which statement best reflects the reality of human recycling and trash disposal.

• Recycling and proper trash disposal are not my responsibility. We have sanitation workers.

• Recycling and trash disposal are way too expensive. Polluting nature is just a sad reality we can't really do anything about.

• If humans put their minds to it, we could solve most of our recycling and trash disposal problems. Maybe not all, but anything is better than doing nothing.

• There really is no point in trying to recycle or dispose of trash properly. There is no way to solve the problem or make it better.

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