Oxymyl, an poisonous pesticide used to kill insects, is water soluble and degrades within days or weeks in soil and water. Do you expect this chemical to accumulate at higher trophic levels that includes predatory birds?

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Q: The Norfolk Broads is an area of rivers and lakes in East Anglia. It is surrounded by farmland and…

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Q: You decide to perform a simple experiment to determine whether nitrogen or phosphorus is a more…

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Q: As a rule of thumb, each 1% of soil organic matter by weight contains about 1,000 pounds of nitrogen…

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Q: On the lush exomoon Pandora, scientists found a type of frog call the “balbasaur frog” whose males…

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Q: Use this data, and sketch a graph by hand that would best fit the data. (think which type of graph…

A: Comb jelly fish  Comb jellyfish is a marine invertebrate organisms belong to phylum ctenophora.

Q: A student measure soil nitrate (NO3-) concentrations everyday for a week. He wants to use these data…

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Q: Water is less dense as a solid than as a liquid. How does this property typically affect a lake…

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Q: Phosphorus is a mined, nonrenewable resource and comes from phosphate rock. It is second only to…

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Q: Which of the following events would be most likely to contribute to increased phosphorus flow into…

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Q: On a piece of paper draw the nitrogen and the carbon cycle for a terrestrial ecosystem. The cycles…

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Environmental Microbiology

Environmental biology deals with the study of microorganisms and their interaction with their surroundings. This term itself covers the microbial interactions with water, soil, air, and microbial too.