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What percent of energy in an ecosystem is used by the animal that eats it?
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∙ 10y ago
There is variation between species (and individuals) as some digestive systems are better at feed conversion than others. It also depends on the food source, some plants produce calories that are more bioavailable than others.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 14y agoThe law of energy says that exactly the same amount of energy goes into the transfer as comes out. Basically the animals should get 100% of the plant's energy when they eat them.
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∙ 10y agoThe animals are believed to only use 10% of energy in an ecosystem.
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∙ 11y agoi really dont know!
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∙ 14y agoAbout 100%
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∙ 12y ago10%
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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.
How does energy go through the ecosystem of producers to consumers?
It decreases by 10%. A producer has 100% to start with, when an animal such as a deer eats the grass, shrub, flower, ect it only actually gets 10% of the energy. When a tiger eats a deer, the tiger is only getting 1% of the original energy, and so on.
Is all the energy from plants passed on to the animal that eats it?
not specifically energy but nutrients and minerals are passed on. take humans for instance, were animals and we get nutrients from vegies
Why is a pyramid the best shape to show how energy move through and ecosystem?
A pyramid can represent the energy transfer in an ecosystem in two ways: First, right side up a pyramid can represent the number or volume of organisms at each level of the food chain. The energy transferred from each organism lower down on the food chain to the next higher up is not 100 percent efficient, so fewer organisms can exist at each higher level of the food chain. Inverted, the pyramid is a simple model of how much total energy it takes to produce a single organism at a level in the food chain. organisms at the bottom taking the least, and those at the top taking the most total energy.
What might happen in an ecosystem if the population of one species grows unusually fast?
Another species that eats the same food might decrease in population.
When an organism in an ecosystem eats it obtains what?
energy
Is more energy lost from an ecosystem when a herbivore eats a plant or when a carnivore eats an animal?
More energy is lost by the Carnivore eating the Herbivore because of the 10% rule. When the Herbivore eats the plant, he gains 10% of the plants energy, but when the Carnivore eats the Herbivore, the Carnivore is getting 10% of the plants 10% from the Herbivore.
Does emperor penguin play an important role in the ecosystem?
yes because every animal is important in the ecosystem because if that animal dies out then every thing that eats that animal will die and every thing that eats that animal dies and soon the world will be without any life.
What does an animal get when it eats another animal?
They get protein for energy
As one animal eats another animal about percent of the energy is lost as heat?
When you eat something you only get 10% of the original energy that was in the thing that you ate eating it does not take that much energy so I would say that you would get about 10% of the energy the anmial had
What animals cannot trace the origin of their energy back to plants?
None. Every animal either eats plants, or eats another animal that eats plants, or eats another animal that eats another animal that eats plants.
How is a vulture consuming the remains of a dead raccoon on the side of a highway is helping an ecosystem?
After the vulture eats the dead raccoon it gets energy from it. When the vulture dies, some of the energy is converted into the organisms that eat dead matter. The energy is then circulated through the ecosystem.
What animal eats plants or animals for energy?
An omnivore .
How do you not get energy directly from the foods you eat?
because the energy comes from the sun, plants absorb energy, an animal eats the plant and then we eat the animal. The animal didn't create the energy.
Is a ogre an animal?
no it is a thing that eats your energy! HA! HA!
If an insect eats a plant and a bird eats an insect about how much energy from the plant is stored in the insect for the bird to use?
answer is 1 percent b/c the insect gets 10 percent of the plant's energy, and only 10 percent of that 10 percent is available for the bird
The source of energy for most living things is?
There is the food chain sun gives energy to plants through photosynthesis, small animal eg. rabbit eats plants takes the plants energy, bigger animal eg. fox eats rabbit takes rabbits energy bigger animal eats fox this is the foxs' preditor. so the source of energy is the sun because energy is pasted up the food chain.
