Question

Biomagnification is when toxic chemicals build up in organisms higher up in the food chain. Predators consume multiple prey over their lifetime. Would a top predator like a hawk have a higher or lower concentration of toxic chemicals compared to zooplankton?

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🧪➡️🥩 Toxic chemicals get stored in fat and are hard to remove from bodies
🦊🍽️🐰🐰🐰 Predators eat many prey, collecting all stored toxins
💾📈 If a fish eats 5 zooplankton, it now carries the chemicals those 5 zooplankton carried.
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Responses

Higher concentration of toxic chemicals
Higher concentration of toxic chemicals

Lower concentration of toxic chemicals

Answer 1

Higher concentration of toxic chemicals.

Explanation: Toxic chemicals that are stored in body fat are hard to remove, and each predator eats many contaminated prey over time. That causes concentrations to increase at higher trophic levels (biomagnification), so a hawk will have more accumulated toxins than zooplankton.