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What are four main elements in food that help energy to move from one trophic level to another?
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s, primary consumers, secondary consumers, and Decomposers!
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What is the efficiency equation for energy?
The efficiency at which energy is transferred from one trophic level to another is called ecological efficiency.it is estimated that only a 10 percent of available energy is transferred
How much energy moves from one trophic level to the next?
Only 10% moves up...my daughter is writing a paper on this now!
Each trophic level has how much less energy?
It has about 10% less energy.
Explain why only 10 percent of the engery available at one trophic level is transferred to the next higher trophic level?
between each tier of the energy pyramid, energy is lost as heat
What energy is available each step up the pyramid?
Ten percent of the energy in each trophic level makes it to the next level.
Why can each trophic level support only about one tenth the amount of the living tissue of the level below?
This is because energy is lost at each trophic level. The energy available to the next trophic level is about 10% of the energy of the previous trophic level.
Why can each trophic level support only about one tenth the amount of living tissue of the level below?
This is because energy is lost at each trophic level (from all the activity done by that level, e.g., running, climbing, fighting) . The energy available to the next trophic level is about 10% of the energy of the previous trophic level.
What do you call each level of energy in the energy pyramid?
trophic level
What happens when an organism from a higher trophic level eats an organism from a lower trophic level?
When an organism from a higher trophic level eats one from a lower trophic level, it gains energy and nutrients from the consumed organism. This contributes to the transfer of energy through the food chain and helps regulate population sizes in the ecosystem.
Term for each step in the transfer of energy and matter within a food web?
Trophic level
Why does only a small fraction of the energy at one trophic level become available to the next trophic level?
About 10% of the energy in the lower trophic level is passed to the next higher level. The 80% of energy that is left is used by that lower level for life processes or is lost as waste.
What is the percent of energy thaT is passed on from one trophic level to the next?
Only about 10% of the energy is transferred from one trophic level to another.
A category of living things that is defined by how they gain energy is called?
trophic level
Why do different trophic level have different amount of energy?
Some energy transferred at each successive trophic level enters the environment as heat.
What is the percentage if energy flow from one trophic leak to another?
The amount of energy that flows from one level to the next is ONE perecent.
What is the efficiency equation for energy?
The efficiency at which energy is transferred from one trophic level to another is called ecological efficiency.it is estimated that only a 10 percent of available energy is transferred
To what does the tropic level of an animal refer?
The trophic level of an animal refers to its place on the energy pyramid. Its trophic level shows what the animal eats and how much energy it gets.
