1.

2) 3 mercury for each phytoplankton 3) 1 phytoplankton per zooplankton 4) 3 zooplankton per little fish 5) 2 small fish per large fish 6) Level # Level 1 Level 2 (Mercury) (Phytoplankton) Mercury 1 3 Found Within

Level 3 (Zooplankton) 3

Level 4 (Little Fish) 9

Level 5 (Big Fish) 18

Conclusion: By doing this activity, I learned how biomagnification quickly raises within a system. It shows how, if there was a large amount of available fish and mercury to go with, then it would rise rapidly within the organisms, quickly building to dangerously harmful levels. Each small organism consumes a small amount of mercury, and then the zooplankton eats the phytoplankton. They eat a large amount of phytoplankton, and each phytoplankton had a small amount of mercury within, and all of these add to a medium level of mercury now found in the zooplankton. Then a large amount of zooplankton are eaten by the small fish, which now have the combined amounts of mercury from each zooplankton, which they got from eating phytoplankton. Then the large fish eats the small fish in large amounts, adding all of the small fishs level of mercury, which is the added levels from the zooplankton, which have the added levels of phytoplankton, resulting in a very high concentration within the large fish.