Cerise is a schoolteacher. She is teaching her students that chemicals dumped in the ocean have adverse consequences on humans. She explains how the chemicals travel through the trophic levels and magnify at each level ultimately reaching humans at dangerously high levels. Which phenomenon is Cerise teaching?
A.
food chain
B.
food web
C.
ecological pyramid
D.
bioaccumulation
E.
isolated ecological system
Explanation: Basically what bioaccumulation is when an organism absorbs a substance at a rate faster than that at which the substance is lost or eliminated by catabolism and excretion.