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Why is the Tertiary consumers always present at the top of a energy pyramid?
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What is true about secondary consumers in an ecosystem?
A secondary consumer is a predator that eats the primary consumer in an ecosystem. Flow of energy in an ecosystem= primary producer>primary consumer>secondary consumer>teriary consumer
What is teritary consumer?
It eats secondary consumers....Secondary consumers eat Primary consumers... Primary consumers eat producers... Prdoucers are plants.....
Why are there more primary consumers than tertiary consumers?
Because the total energy associated with the primary consumers isn't stored in their bodies, so can't all be passed on to the secondary ones. The rest is used for their life processes, such as movement.
Why are there usually few organisms at the energy pyramid?
In a stable ecoystem, there should always be more producers than carnivores. For one, there has to be more energy, because your energy flow has to reach the top of the pyramid through your primary, secondary, etc. consumers. There has to be more at the bottom because the organisms at the upper levels have to have a food source. How would the jungle look if there were 100 tigers and only 1 plant?
What kind of animals are a tertiary consumers?
A tertiary consumer is an organism that eats secondary consumers. An example of this would be shark. The shark could be a tertiary consumer because the shark eats a fish which eats zooplankton which eat phytoplankton. The phytoplankton is the primary producer, the zooplankton is the primary consumer, the fish is the secondary consumer which makes the shark the tertiary consumer.
What kind of animal is a consumer?
A Consumer is an animal that eats the Producer. The Producer is always a plant. There are 3 types of consumers:Primary Consumer, Secondary Consumer, and Tertiary Consumer. The Primary Consumer eats the Producer, the Secondary Consumer eats the Primary Consumer, and the Tertiary Consumer eats the Secondary Consumer. Example: Grass ------------> Rabit ------------> Snake ------------> Hawk (producer) (primary consumer) (secondary consumer) (tertiary consumer)
Why is the pyramid of biomass in the English channel inverted?
The inverted biomass pyramid is where the weight of the producers is less than the weight of the consumers. The inverted pyramid is more prevalent in aquatic ecosystems, as in such an environment, the biomass depends on the reproductive ability and the lifespan of the species. The best example is the pond ecosystem, where the mass of the producers of the ecosystem, which are generally the phytoplanktons is always less than the mass of the consumers in the ecosystem, which are generally fish and other insects.
Which ecological pyramid is always straight?
pyramid of energy
Why are consumers at the bottom of the food chain?
Producers are placed at the bottom of the food chain because the do not eat other living organisms and instead get their energy though the sun.
Which ecological pyramid always remains upright?
Pyramid of "Energy" !!
Why is the face other than the base on a pyramid always triangular?
That is how a pyramid is defined!That is how a pyramid is defined!That is how a pyramid is defined!That is how a pyramid is defined!
How an energy pyramid and a food chain are the same and different?
A food chain shows food energy moving from organism to organism. A pyramid ofnumbers show how many organisms were involved in each level of food chain. Food chains always begin with the sun as the source of energy and the pyramid of numbers always has the producer as the base. Pyramid of numbers have more producers at the bottom than consumers at the top.The similarities are that they both are models and they both have the same organisms. They both have top consumers and they both show how energy is passed down from organism to organism.
