Energy is lost
It decreases.
the energy decreases.
what happens is that the energy that was to start with will be broken and half of that will go to continue the cycle because the energy that does not move on is being used by the producer, consumer or scavenger depending on which stage of the food chain or web it is on.
1. The Situation 2. The Unsafe Habit 3. The Unsafe Action 4. The Accident 5. The Result
The energy decreases as you move step to step in a chain The first organism (primary consumer) that eats the producer (green plants) will have the most number
1. The Situation 2. The Unsafe Habit 3. The Unsafe Action 4. The Accident 5. The Result
As you move down a trophic level in a food chain or food web, energy is transferred from one organism to another. With each step down, energy is lost through metabolism and heat production, resulting in less energy being available for the next trophic level. This is why organisms at higher trophic levels typically have fewer individuals compared to lower trophic levels.
Matter and total energy are ALWAYS conserved. However, in a food web, you will often consider the USABLE energy; this gets reduced at each step of the food web.
Trophic level
Trophic level
The term for each step in the transfer of energy and matter within a biological community is a trophic level. Trophic levels represent the different levels in a food chain or food web where organisms obtain their energy.
The energy is reduced in such a way that only 10% is passed to each level.