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What roles do trophic levels play in the transfer of energy within food chains and food webs?
Trophic levels play a significant role in the transfer of energy within food chains and food webs. Each organism has a position n the trophic level and energy is transferred through succession.
Where does a food chains flow of energy start?
All food chains flow of energy start from the sun.
What do food chains transfer?
energy
Why is a food web a more realistic way of portraying an ecosystem than a food chain?
Food chains are overly simplistic as representatives of what typically happens in nature. The food chain shows only one pathway of energy and material transfer.Now, a food web is a set of interconnected food chains by which energy and materials circulate within an ecosystem.So they're both different.[information found at Wikipedia]
Is animal food pyramid the same as energy pyramid?
food chains
All food chains begin with what?
A source of Energy.
What is the niche within an alligators food chains?
fish ect.
What is the primary energy source of all food chains and food webs?
It is the sun.
How do food chain differ from food webs?
food chains are a series of steps in which organisms transfer energy,and a food web links all the food chains in an ecosystem together.
What do the arrow in food chains and web represent?
Transfer of energy
What relationship exists between tropic levels and a food chain?
Food chains demonstrate the feeding patterns between orgainisms in a specific ecosystem and food webs include multiple food chains and show how they are interconnected by the species and ecosystems within it.
Are microorganisms important in food chains?
No, all food chains must start with a producer that harvests energy from the sun, and distributes it throughout the ecosystem.
