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What does a biomass show?
The biomass pyramid is a chart that is drawn to scale. It displays the biomass at each stage in the food chain.
How does the decay of biomass relate to a food chain your food web?
Because their food
What does a biomass pyramid represent?
A pyramid of biomass shows how much energy the organism on a food chain is getting from its food.
In a food chain which organisms have the smallest numbers and smallest total biomass?
Those at the top of the food chain.
How can energy be lost in a food chain?
Energy can be lost in a food chain by heat or waste.
What is the total mass of all organisms in a food chain?
biomass
Explain the reason that eating lower on a food chain provides more food energy that eating higher on the food chain?
Biomass refers to the food available for the next trophic level in a food chain. There is a higher biomass on the lower levels of the food chain, hence eating on those levels would provide more food energy.
What organism has the greatest biomass in the food chain?
The Producers. Tends to be the bottom of the pyramid if you are studying a pyramid.
What happens to the biomass as you move up the food chain?
Biomass accumulates Think of it as a pyramid If the animals at the bottom consume a little then the next step up will have a little more in them because they just absorbed all of it when you get to the top you will have the highest concentration in the entire food chain.
What is lost from a food chain?
energy
Are all parts of the food chain linked?
biomass power generation temperature oxygen string erindigame reserve
Why is there less energry at the end of a food chain?
Because energy can be 'lost' by heat at each tier of the food chain.
