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Why energy is lost to the environment at each stage in a food chain?
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∙ 15y ago
Well a lot of the energy is used in keeping the animal alive, only a portion of the energy is used for growth. So when a deer eats plants, a lot of the energy is used to keep the deer's homeostasis stable, so if a wolf eats a deer it only gets the deer's residual energy.
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∙ 13y ago90 percent of energy is lost at each level in a food chain.
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Which is the main process transferring energy to the surroundings at each stage in the food chain?
The main process of transferring energy to the surroundings at each stage of the food chain is... growth nutrition reproduction respiration
Energy is lost at each stage of food chain howq?
Before the energy is transferred between animals, some energy is used to travel between distances and to keep the animal alive, therefore not all of the starting energy is gained by the consumer.
Why does boby mass decrease in each step of the food chain?
as we go up the food chain, of course, the energy will decrease... it is because, from the primary producer, the primary consumer consumes it until the consumer will become the producer... and the cycle preceeds.. the energy will decrease because of the cycle..
Which section of an energy pyramid is the largest and Why?
A pyramid is bigger at the bottom and small and pointy at the top. so its bigger at the bottom, otherwise it would have been called an energy upside-down pyramid =). But anyway, energy enters a food chain from the sun. some energy and biomass is lost at each stage of a food chain as feaces, movement energy and heat energy (especiall birds and mammals). therefore only a small amount of energy and biomass is incorporated into a consumer's body and transferred to the next feeding level. the loss of energy and biomass at each stage is a representation of why the pyramid gets smaller at the top.
What shows the decrease of energy at each level of a food chain?
an energy pyramid
What is the food industry doing to protect the public at each stage of the food chain?
tabish
Why is there less energry at the end of a food chain?
Because energy can be 'lost' by heat at each tier of the food chain.
What are energy pyramids?
Is a model that shows how much energy is available at each level of a food chain or ecosystem
Do arrows in a food web show how energy is released at each stage?
No it does'nt it shows how energy flows
What does each stage in a food web provide the next stage?
it covers choclate covered donuts(: just kiding i have no cluezzz
The life science that studies how living things depend on each other and their environment?
food chain
What shows the comparative amount of energy available at each feeding level in the environment?
An energy pyramid
