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Describe how the flow of energy among the following members of an decomposers autotrophs heterotrophs and the sun?
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∙ 10y ago
Energy flows from the sun to autrotrophs, which are able to make their own food from sunlight. Autotrophs die and are eaten by decomposers, passing some of their energy to them, and autotrophs are also eaten by heterotrophs (herbivores), also passing some of their energy to them. Heterotrophs die and pass some of their energy to decomposers.
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∙ 11y agoThe best diagram to represent this energy transfer would be the pyramid. Plants (producers) use the sun's energy to make sugars through the process of photosynthesis. Those sugars are ingested by living things which feed off producers (primary consumer). Secondary consumers eat primary consumers and so one. Decomposers decompose producers, and consumers when they die.
Some energy is always lost between those stages. A plant uses some of its energy to grow for instance, so the animal that eats it will always get less than the plant had. Herbovores use up their energy as well so there is an energy loss there as well, and so on. That's why it's a pyramid.
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Heterotrophs, primary consumers, and herbivores..
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Producers, Plants, and Autotrophs your welcome ;)
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we are not sure
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