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Where does the energy for the tropic levels come from?
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Trophic levels are levels in a food chain. Every food chain must begin with a producer (also called an autotroph), which is a plant that can produce its own food by photosynthesis. When a plant is eaten by a vegetarian animal (like an insect) which is eaten by a carnivore (a bird, for example) which is eaten by another carnivore (a snake, for example), each step in the process is another trophic level. The energy ultimately comes from the sun and from the producers (plants) at the bottom of the food chain.
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Characteristics of the series of levels surrounding the nucleus?
Energy levels or Energy
What are the all the tropic levels?
Producer-----> Primary Consumer-----> Secondary Consumer-----> Top Predator-----> all return to decomposers.
What proportion of energy is transferred from one tropic level to the next?
10 PERCENT
A model that shows comparative energy levels for different feeding levels is called?
energy pyramid
What is the process concentrations of harmful substances increase in organisms at higher tropic levels in a food chain known as?
biological magnification -teddybearr
Why is so much energy lost and where does it go in tropic levels?
In higher tropic levels, energy is lost because of the higher area of living. Metabolic activity is something else that plays a big part in the loss of energy at the tropic level.
Why does an energy pyramid have only three to four tropic levels?
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Why is imposible to have many tropic levels?
Each tropic level is only able to use about 10% of the energy from its food. Because of this energy loss, there is usually not enough energy left to after a fourth tropic level to support anything higher.
What is a sentence for trophic level?
The most accurate method is to use a pyramid of energy to show the transfer of energy between trophic levels
How do organisms transfer energy?
Food energy flows from one organism to the next and to the next and so on, with some energy being lost at each level. Organisms in a food chain are grouped into tropic levels, based on how many links they are removed from the primary producers. In tropic levels there may be one species or a group of species with the same predators and prey.
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Why toxins increase in concentration at each successive tropic level ina food chain?
With the increase of the tropic level, there is a loss of energy. It is averaged that each organism consumes 10% of the energy from the organism that it eats. Because of this loss of energy, the animals at the higher tropic levels eat more, and hence, eat more toxins. The toxins accumulate in the fat of the animals, and just continue to increase.
How much energy that is in one tropic level will appear in the next tropic level?
Only 10% of the energy will appear in the next tropic level.
Analyze the flow of energy through a food chain that contains four tropic levels?
Four tropic levels are very rare and are found only in tropical rainforests. Consider the first level which are grasses and green plants. They absorb sunlight. If they have 100% of the energy at these levels, the next level will only get 10% of that 100% as energy for their metabolic needs. This 10% will be the base for the next level. They will only get 10% of 10% for their energy needs. That is 1%. To have enough energy for the forth level, only 10% of 1% will be passed on. That is 0.001%. Not very many animals can live on that.
How can a organism in the fourth tropic level obtain energy from the sun?
An organism in the fourth level gets food from the sun by consuming organisms in the levels below it.
What energy transfer between tropic levels when taking into account the heat given off from cellular respiration?
When organisms use cellular respiration to process energy, only a small amount of energy is transferred to the next trophic level.
What are the 5 levels of the tropic levels of an ecosystem?
1.Individual2.Population3.Communities4.Ecosystem5.Biome
