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What happens to the amount of energy available to each successive trophic level in a food chain?
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∙ 12y ago
It decreases because there are less and less animals as you go up.
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Why do different trophic level have different amount of energy?
Some energy transferred at each successive trophic level enters the environment as heat.
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.
What does a pyramid of energy show about the amount of energy available at different trophic levels of a food chain?
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What does a pyramid of energy show about the amount of energy available at different trophic levels of food chain?
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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 is trophic mass?
I would assume it to be the amount of mass in a specific trophic level. Thus, the trophic mass pyramid.
What would biomass tell us that a pyramid of numbers wouldn't?
A pyramid of numbers will only tell you the amount of organisms at each trophic level. A Biomass pyramid ignores the amount of organisms in favour of their biomass (dry weight) which in turn represents the amount of energy available at each trophic level.
When energy is transferred between trophic levels the amount of available energy lost is about?
9o% of energy is lost at each level
Which trophic level contains the most available food energy?
On an ecological pyramid or in a food chain, typically, the highest trophic levels have the least amount of energy from the sun available for the next highest level. In a typical food chain, this would be the tertiary consumer level.
Which trophic level receives the least amount of available energy Tertiary consumers Secondary consumers Primary consumers Producers?
tertiary consumers
How changes to a lower trophic level affects high trophic levels?
because the amount of decanposers
What do the three types of ecological pyramids illustrate?
Pyramids of energy show the relative amount of energy available at each trophic level of a food chain or food web. (:
