BIOLOGICAL MAGNIFICATION & HOW IT AFFECTS OUR WELL-BEING

from EPA Terms of the Environment

Definition: Refers to the process whereby certain substances such as pesticides or heavy metals such as mercury, move up the food chain, work their way into rivers or lakes, and are eaten by aquatic organisms such as fish, which in turn are eaten by large birds, animals or humans. The substances become concentrated in tissues or internal organs as they move up the chain.

• Environmental Biology -Ecosystems
• Pollution - Human Impact on the Environement -review sheet
• Human Population and Industrialization
• Ecosystem
• Mercury is a metal that reflects how
• Human Impact on the Earth
• Mercury Rising