REVISION WORKSHEET FOR PROGRESSION TEST

SCIENCE – GRADE 8
UNIT 4: ECOSYSTEMS

1. The diagram shows a food web in the Arctic Ocean.

This diagram shows the quantities of mercury in the water in the ocean, and in some of the
organisms in the food web.
The figures are given in parts per million, ppm. This tells us how many grams of mercury are
present in 1000 kg of the organism.
a) Name the producer in this food web.
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b) Construct a food chain that starts with this producer and ends with a person.
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c) Explain how the information in the diagrams shows biomagnification along a food chain.

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d) Explain why biomagnification happens.

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