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When energy flows through the trophic then then in each tropic level some energy used for Respiratio, reproductio, growth,locomotion etc. So the energy decrease. GE-RE=NE GE= energy of a trophic level. RE= used energy or Respiratory energy. NE= energy flows next trophic level
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 13y agoBecause it's being used. (I assume you're talking about a food chain kind of thing.)
Plants store energy from sunlight, mainly in the form of carbohydrates. They use a little to run their own biochemistry also.
Herbivores consume plants to get their stored energy. They then store it for later use, and use a little to run theirbiochemistry... things like looking around for a plant, moving to it, chewing it and digesting it all use some energy, so the amount they store winds up being a little less than the amount they take in.
Carnivores consume other animals (some herbivores, some other carnivores) to get their stored energy. They use some for their own biochemistry too. Looking around for another animal to eat, chasing it, killing it, eating it and digesting tends to be a bit more energy intensive than hunting down and viciously slaughtering grass is, so as a rule they use a larger fraction of the energy they take in to get food in the first place than herbivores do. (Herbivores and carnivores both also expend some energy avoiding carnivores wanting to prey on them.)
The point is: at each stage some energy is expended, and there's no new energy entering the system except at the plant level where it's coming from sunlight.
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A category of living things that is defined by how they gain energy is called?
trophic level
How are trophic level efficiency measured?
Trophic level efficiency is the ratio of production of one trophic level to the production of the next lower trophic level. This efficiency is never high.
What is an organism's relative position in a sequence of energy transfers in a food chain or food pyramid?
Trophic level
Approximately what percentage of organic energy gets transferred from organisms on one trophic level to the next trophic level?
ten percent
How much energy is passed from one trophic level to the next where does the rest go?
10% of the energy is passed on each trophic level. the other 90% goes out through 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.
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.
Are biomass and trophic level related?
Each trophic level contains one-tenth as much biomass as the level below it and ten times as much biomass as the level above it.
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.
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.
How does a decrease in the amount of each trophic level affect the organization of an ecosystem?
Because there is less energy available at each feeding level, there is a limit to how many organisms can be a part of each progressive level.
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.
What is energy that is lost at each trophic level of an ecosystem is replenished?
Energy that is lost at each trophic level of an ecosystem is replenished by the producers. The producers get it from the sun.
