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There is less energy available to consumers at higher levels in a food why?
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∙ 13y ago
There is less energy available to consumers(animals) ,because most of the energy from the sun is used by the producers(plants)
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What are the trophic. Levels?
1- Producers- make their own food (plants, photosynthetic bacteria, etc.) 2- Primary Consumers- eat the producers, small (rodents, bugs, etc.) 3- Secondary Consumers- eat the primary consumers (ex: snakes) 4- Tertiary Consumers- eat the secondary consumers, larger, (ex: owls, humans) There are not many trophic levels because only 10% of the energy available at one trophic level is passed on to the next level, and so the amount of energy available after many levels is not able to support many organisms.
How do energy differences between higher energy levels of an atom compare to lower energy levels?
They are smaller in magnitude than those between lower energy levels.
If decomposers were added to an energy pyramid that contains producers primary consumers and secondary consumers which trophic level or levels would be affected?
all consumers
How many trophic levels are in the food chain?
There are four trophic levels in an ecological pyramid. They are primary producers, primary consumers, secondary consumers, and tertiary consumers.
Can you name four trophic levels?
1- Producers- make their own food (plants, photosynthetic bacteria, etc.) 2- Primary Consumers- eat the producers, small (rodents, bugs, etc.) 3- Secondary Consumers- eat the primary consumers (ex: snakes) 4- Tertiary Consumers- eat the secondary consumers, larger, (ex: owls, humans) There are not many trophic levels because only 10% of the energy available at one trophic level is passed on to the next level, and so the amount of energy available after many levels is not able to support many organisms.
Which energy levels have higher energy?
the higher ones... ?
What are the trophic. Levels?
1- Producers- make their own food (plants, photosynthetic bacteria, etc.) 2- Primary Consumers- eat the producers, small (rodents, bugs, etc.) 3- Secondary Consumers- eat the primary consumers (ex: snakes) 4- Tertiary Consumers- eat the secondary consumers, larger, (ex: owls, humans) There are not many trophic levels because only 10% of the energy available at one trophic level is passed on to the next level, and so the amount of energy available after many levels is not able to support many organisms.
How do energy differences between higher energy levels of an atom compare to lower energy levels?
They are smaller in magnitude than those between lower energy levels.
Is there more energy stored in the producer level or consumers levels?
The producer level.
What organism feeds on all levels of the energy pyramid?
micro organism
If decomposers were added to an energy pyramid that contains producers primary consumers and secondary consumers which trophic level or levels would be affected?
all consumers
The number of tropic levels in an ecological pyramid?
ECOLOGICAL food chains are typically short, consisting of not more than four or five trophic levels. This is usually explained by a reduction in the energy which is available to successive links in the food chain1,2. In contrast, we believe that the number of trophic levels is constrained by population dynamics and not by ecological energetics.
Why isn't all of the energy a green plant gets from passed to other organisms?
Because only a fraction of the energy used by a level is converted to biomass, less energy is available at higher levels.
How many trophic levels are in the food chain?
There are four trophic levels in an ecological pyramid. They are primary producers, primary consumers, secondary consumers, and tertiary consumers.
Why isn't all the energy a green plant gets from sunlight passed to other organisms?
Because only a fraction of the energy used by a level is converted to biomass, less energy is available at higher levels.
How do the energy differences between higher energy levels of an atom compare with the energy differences between the lower energy levels of an atom?
They are smaller in magnitude than those between lower energy levels.
Can you name four trophic levels?
1- Producers- make their own food (plants, photosynthetic bacteria, etc.) 2- Primary Consumers- eat the producers, small (rodents, bugs, etc.) 3- Secondary Consumers- eat the primary consumers (ex: snakes) 4- Tertiary Consumers- eat the secondary consumers, larger, (ex: owls, humans) There are not many trophic levels because only 10% of the energy available at one trophic level is passed on to the next level, and so the amount of energy available after many levels is not able to support many organisms.
