The energy is then taken back up by producers
Energy is equivalent to mass, therefore when the atoms that make up the animal disperse due to decomposition, the energy goes with them, and is dispersed in the same way.
Although its impossible , but if both primary and secondary consumers die your business will run out of customers.
Secondary rebuilds.
herbivores will reign supreme as there are no secondary consumers to eat them. This means the plants will decrease in population however, herbivores can be eaten by tertiary consumers (humans for example). Hope this answers your question 007 SGS
If there were more secondary consumers than primary consumer, then the primary consumers may not be able to find food to survive and become extinct. With too many secondary consumers as a result of no predators of them, then all of the plants may become extinct as well, causing the whole food chain to die out.
energy source(sun)>producer(grass)>primary consumer(mouse)>secondary consumer(snake)> tertiary(hawk)>decomposer(fungi) All organisms die and get broken down by decomposers
What would happen if grasses and shrubs were removed from an ecosystem? A.the primary consumers would increaseB.the primary consumers would become secondary consumersC.the primary consumers would die out or move elsewhereD.the primary consumers would stay unchanged
Yes and no, without them there would be no life because primary consumers would die without food, and then secondary consumers and so forth. However secondary consumers don't feed directly from the producers so they are not all the food in that sense.
the plant will die
First of all, there's not such thing as "primary producer" it's called producer, but if that happens the primary consumer would die so the secondary consumer who is the one who eats the primary, would eat another animal or die.
The Amazon Rainforest is full of animals that all contribute to the area's ecosystem. The rainforest has primary consumers that eat the plant life. These consumers are eaten by secondary consumers, or carnivores. When the carnivores die, they are consumed by scavengers and decomposers, Then, the cycle begins again.
it's not, let me elaborate, energy cycle is not a cycle it's linear, first from the sun then to plants through photosynthesis then to primary consumers then to secondary consumers then to the tertiary and all of these will die and decomposed by bacteria and fungi. as you can see there is no cycle -bio student
The food chain is the process by which sunlight energy is captured by plants (producers) which make food. Plants are then eaten by herbivores (primary consumers)n which are in turn eaten by carnivores (secondary consumers). Man is an animal and part of this food chain, if we destroy the food chain we will die.