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Unfortunately for later members in the food chain, only 10% of the energy of the organism that they ate is absorbed an usable by the consumer.
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Explain how energy is transferred through a food chain?
Energy is transferred through a food chain when an organism eats another organism. As the food chain progresses, less energy is available when an organism is consumed.
What is transferred from producers to consumers and decomposers in the food chain?
Energy is transferred betweenproducers to consumers and decomposers in the food chain.
What is transferred from organism to organism in a food chain?
energy is transferred from on animal to the other animal. Because energy can't be destroyed only transferred
What is transeferred from producers to consumers and decomposers through food chains?
Energy is transferred in a food chain. It starts with plants absorbing energy from the sun. It is then transferred up through the food chain by animals that eat plants which are, in turn, eaten by carnivore's.
What is transferred from plants to animals through the food chain?
Energy
Is it true that a food chain models how food energy is transferred?
Yes. It distributes the energy from the sun to the plant and so on.
What is the sequence in which energy is transferred from one organism to another called?
A food chain.
How is energy transferred through a food chain?
10% or the energy of THE SUN is transferred. 1 tertiary consumers 10 secondary consumers 100 primary consumers 1000 producers 10000 sun
What shows the loss of energy as it is transferred through the food chain?
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Why is only some energy transferred in a food chain?
energy is lost through heat excretion and movement
How is energy transferred through a food web and food chain using law of conversation of energy?
In a food chain and food web the energy is getting reused by the next level so the energy is not being created or distorted, just reused.
An ecologist is studying how energy is transferred between organisms within an aquatic ecosystem Which model is most useful for the ecologists research?
the food chain
