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environmentalscience
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| anaerobic bacteria | bacteria that live in an environment devoid of oxygen |
| bioaccumulation | the amount of a substance increases as it moves up the food chain |
| biomagnification | bioaccumulation occurs through several levels of the food chain |
| concentration | a measure of the amount of dissolved substance contained per unit of volume |
| emissions | discharges, such as from a smokestack |
| methylmercury | the byproduct of metabolism by anerobic bacteria, typically living in an acidic environment with access to carbon and sulfur |
| toxicity | the degree to which something is poisonous |
| food chain | a set of organisms that food upon one another and pass energy down the chain |
| food web | multiple, interconnected food chains |
| macroinvertebrate | an organism without a backbone that is large enought yo see without a microscope |
| mercury cycle | the deposition and uptake of mercury from the emission source to the indigestion by organisms |
| anthropogenic | human caused |
| lipophylic | fat loving |
| watershed | the area of land where all of the water that is under it or drains off of it goes into one water body. |
| sublimation | moving from solid to gas without liquid stage (ice to water) |
| infiltration | water seeping into the ground |
| transpiration | water evaporating from plants due to heat through leaves |
| evaporation | liquid to vapor (water moving into the air) |
| evapotranspiration | transpiration plus the water evaporated from land and water |
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