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  • challenge question #4

    Joyce Bliss (0013vvel@informns.k12.mn.us)
    Tue, 18 Mar 1997 14:07:11 -0600 (CST)

    Valley View Elementary School-Columbia Heights, MN

    We think loons get mercury poisoning by eating the fish that live in the
    polluted waters. The mercury gets from the atmosphere into the water when
    it rains. Then the mercury gets into the things that the fish eat and they
    have mercury in their bodies.