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Why would only 10 percent of the primary consumers energy go into the secondary consumers and where is the other 90 percent of the energy the primary consumers have going?
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Does the coal industry belong to the secondary economic sector?
Coal belongs in the secondary economic sector because it provides energy for the primary sector. It plays a huge role in producing electricity for other businesses and homes.
Does a producer represent the base of an energy pyramid?
Its just give Energy to consumers ,
Interdependence in nature is illustrated by?
Interdependence in nature is illustrated by ecosystems. Living organisms rarely exist alone as illustrated by an ecosystem, in which everything is interconnected. The sun provides the light energy, which primary producers (plants, algae, and photosynthetic prokaryotes) use to synthesize sugars and other organic compounds. These sugars and organic compounds are then used as building material for growth and as fuel for cellular respiration. The organisms in the next trophic levels indirectly or directly depend on this photosynthetic output of the primary producers as this chemical energy is then consumed by primary consumers (herbivores), secondary consumers (carnivores), and tertiary consumers (carnivores that eat other carnivores). Many of these nutrient transfers through the trophic level lead to detritus, non living organic material, which provides energy for the detritivores (prokaryotes and fungi) who help to decompose this organic material in an ecosystem. The chemical elements are then transferred in inorganic forms to abiotic reservoirs such as soil, water, and air, which the primary producers recycle into organic compounds. These living organisms are so interconnected that there would be serious consequences for the ecosystem and the living organisms in it if even one trophic level were to be destroyed.
How much energy does nuclear energy provide?
In the US, 19 percent of electricity. World-wide about 16 percent
What is a primary and secondary producer?
As an organism that makes its own organicnutrients, usually using energy from sunlight, through photosynthesis. This organism is called aPRODUCER. As an organism that get its energy by feeding on other organisms. For example:- Animals depend or feed on living organisms, so a loin might depend on a deer. This organism is called a CONSUMER.
What is a description of the energy flow through an ecosystem?
The plants get 10 percent energy from the sun. The highest concentration of energy is in producers [for example plants or algae]. Then the primary consumer eats only plants but retain only ten percent of their energy. Secondary consumers eat the primary consumers and get ten percent from the primary consumers. Secondary consumers can also eat plants. Then the final level is the tertiary consumers who are typically carnivores and eat secondary consumers. They retain 10 percent from the secondary consumers. So with each level less energy is achieved.
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
Is a field mouse a primary consumer?
As they are herbivores, mice are primary consumers. Primary consumers eat producers of energy (like plants), while secondary consumers eat other consumers.
What is teritary consumer?
It eats secondary consumers....Secondary consumers eat Primary consumers... Primary consumers eat producers... Prdoucers are plants.....
What diagram can be used to show the population of producers primary consumers and secondary consumers in the system?
Energy pyramid
Which diagram can be used to show the population of producers primary consumers and secondary consumers in a system-?
Energy Pyramid
Is a Giraffe a primary tertiary or secondary consumers?
Giraffes are primary consumers, as they eat producers, the various plants, leaves, and shrubs which compose their diet. They do not produce their own energy, nor do they eat consumers.
Why are sharks primary consumers?
A Shark would be considered a Secondary Consumer because a primary consumer gets its energy from plants, whereas a Secondary Consumer gets its energy from from other consumers.
Which trophic level receives the least amount of available energy Tertiary consumers Secondary consumers Primary consumers Producers?
tertiary consumers
What is the relationship between a primary consumer and a secondary consumer?
A primary consumer obtains its energy from producers (i.e. plants). Therefore a rabbit is a primary consumer because it eats grass and other plants. A secondary consumer eats primary consumers, therefore they do not get their energy directly from plants.The fox that eats the rabbit would be a secondary consumer.
Which organisim is a 'secondary consumer'?
Secondary consumers are organisms that eat primary consumers. Primary consumers eat primary producers. Primary producers are plants that photosynthesize sun light into chemical energy. A cow, for example, that eats grass (a primary producer) is considered to be a primary consumer. The wolf (or a human for that matter), who eats the cow (a primary consumer), is defined as the secondary consumer.
What are the four levels in an energy pyramid?
energy source(sun)>producer(grass)>primary consumer(mouse)>secondary consumer(snake)> tertiary(hawk)>decomposer(fungi) All organisms die and get broken down by decomposers
