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Energy isn't "used up" but instead is converted into different forms like heat (thermal) and motion (kinetic) but when talking about an object we say the object has lost or gained energy.
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Where does the energy go that is lost in the energy pyramid?
Only the energy stored as biomass (stuff that the next organism up eats and successfully absorbs) makes it up to the next layer of the pyramid. The rest i lost because the animal doing the eating doesn't absorb all of the energy in the food, the animal moves around expending energy, some (quite a lot actually) is lost as heat in warm-blooded animals, etc. In fact very little of the energy absorbed by one layer of the pyramid through eating makes it up to the next layer.
What percent is lost as you move up the energy pyramid?
10%
What happens to the lost energy when fossil fuel is used to generate electricity?
Energy is never lost, it is transformed into different types or transferred into different systems. Some of this is useful energy, for example thermal energy used to power a turbine or generator. Some of this thermal energy is not useful, and instead just heats up the fuel container or components of the generator. This energy has still come from the fossil fuel being burned, but it has not been transferred into the system for generating electricity.
Is energy gained or lost during vaporization?
Vaporization is an endothermic process. It takes energy to heat up material to the point that it vaporizes, so energy is gained by the material being vaporized and lost by the environment.
Is energy recycled or does it get used up?
Energy is never used up - it is always turned into another form of energy, or 'recycled'. Energy can neither be created or destroyed.
How energy is lost biofuel?
energy is lost in Bio-fuels by the energy and the fuel used in biofuel to burn heat
How is energy lost in biofuel?
energy is lost in Bio-fuels by the energy and the fuel used in biofuel to burn heat
What happens to the remaining energy that is not used for life processes or lost as heat?
what happened to the energy that is not stored in your body
What happens to the amount of energy as you go up the energy pyramid?
Basically only 1/10 of the energy from the previous organism is absorbed into the body of the consumer while the other 9/10 is burned up when used for energy by the previous organism. If there is some grass with 100 energy and it gets eaten by a herbivore, the herbivore only receives 10% of the ORIGINAL energy (so the herbivore will have 10 energy.) The animal that will eat the herbivore will only receive 1 energy from the ORIGINAL energy source. The next consumer of the previous organism will only get 0.1 energy from the ORIGINAL energy source and so on.
Energy flow in an ecosystem is not cyclic because energy is?
lost as heat or used
What happens to the energy level as you move up the energy pyramid?
10% of energy is lost as you move from 1 level to the next. So at the end 90% if the energy will be lost as heat.
Why are coal fires inefficient?
Because a lot of the energy used to hear up the room is lost to the surroundings eg for every 100 J of energy stored in coal and released as heat about 25 J is used to heat u the room whilst the rest is lost to the surroundings
What do living things use to make energy?
They eat to make up the energy they lost
How much energy is lost as energy moves up trophic levels?
10 percent
Where does the energy go that is lost in the energy pyramid?
Only the energy stored as biomass (stuff that the next organism up eats and successfully absorbs) makes it up to the next layer of the pyramid. The rest i lost because the animal doing the eating doesn't absorb all of the energy in the food, the animal moves around expending energy, some (quite a lot actually) is lost as heat in warm-blooded animals, etc. In fact very little of the energy absorbed by one layer of the pyramid through eating makes it up to the next layer.
What percent is lost as you move up the energy pyramid?
10%
Is chemical energy used up when the battery energy is used up?
Yes.
