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What is more energy available in the first link of a food chain than in the forefront of the same food chain?
because it needs a lot of energy to get the food chain to cycle.
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.
How is the length of a food chain related to its efficiency?
The length of a food chain is related to its efficiency by when it is smaller it is more efficient. This is because the energy is not being used up as quickly.
Why are long food chains less effective in transferring energy than short food chains?
Short food chains are more efficient than long food chains because you lose energy as you go up the chain. For example, if we say that plants take in 100% of the possible energy, when a rabbit eats that grass, the rabbit only gets 50% of the energy because the plants were using their stored energy to make food. It continues on like this for as long as the food chain lasts. (Note: the amount of energy isn't correct; I just used those percentages as examples.
Why are producers first links of a food chain?
if there wasn't a producer there would be no energy being transferred. then the animals would weaken and start getting eaten by the carnivores. soon the herbivores species would be gone. then the carnivores all dieing. after all the animals would be dead.
Why do food chains usually have no more than four animals?
because it's a chain...and the chains added together make a food web...duhh! ^ this is wrongg because so much energy passes of a food chain, there is not enough energy for any more species
What is more energy available in the first link of a food chain than in the forefront of the same food chain?
because it needs a lot of energy to get the food chain to cycle.
Why is the Inuit food chain longer than the farmed food chain?
because the humans has more energy
Which group of organism make up the largest part of a food chain?
The part of the food chain that needs the most energy to live is the... All of the species on the bottom, because if their on the bottom they are small, so they need more energy to run and hide.
Can food be recycled in a food chain?
no food chains are the simplified one way version that just list what typically eats what in a chain like diagram a food web would show the more complex interactions of food energy being eaten at various scales by different species, where things break off from the chain and how food can be recycled back into the chain
Why is a complex food web better than a simple food chain for the survival of the community?
A food web can more readily react to changes in the environment that impact one or more species. Also a food web is sometimes strengthened by the loss of one or more species if that species is overly aggressive, whereas a food chain is only as strong as it's weakest link and is always diminished or destroyed by the loss of any member. In short, a food web is more adaptive than a food chain and usually more diverse with more opportunity for cooperative advantage, improving chances of survival over a chain for the included species, especially species higher in the web (further from photosynthesis).
Why food webs with many species are more resilient than those with few species?
A food web can more readily react to changes in the environment that impact one or more species. Also a food web is sometimes strengthened by the loss of one or more species if that species is overly aggressive, whereas a food chain is only as strong as it's weakest link and is always diminished or destroyed by the loss of any member. In short, a food web is more adaptive than a food chain and usually more diverse with more opportunity for cooperative advantage, improving chances of survival over a chain for the included species, especially species higher in the web (further from photosynthesis).
What happens to energy as we move from step to step in a food chain?
I think what you are referring to is a food chain, It is a series of energy steps from plants to animals and more animals in the form of food.
Corn will provide man with?
more energy in the second food chain
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 new species affect the food chain?
Any new species being introduced into an area will affect the food chain in one way or another. More often than not, especially if the introduction was deliberate, while the new species may be of great help in keeping a pest species under control, it will hurt other species within the food chain because of competition for food, predation that was not present previously, or any number of other factors.
Why is a food chain a better description of feeding relationships in a community than in a food chain?
A food web provides more detailed information about how the different species are dependent on each other.i.e as a source of food and survival.
