You go on a canoe trip to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA) in northern Minnesota. This ecosystem is cold most of the year and receives plenty of rainfall. It has many lakes that are full of walleye pike. You know that walleye like to eat minnows. In turn, the minnows feed on scuds (zooplankton), which eat algae (phytoplankton).
-Mercury released from coal burning power plants would be at the highest concentration in

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Mercury accumulates up the food chain in a process called biomagnification, meaning that top predators, such as eagles eating the walleye, would have the highest concentration of mercury.

You Go on a Canoe Trip to the Boundary Waters