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In an energy pyramid which level has the most available energy and why?
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∙ 15y ago
The producer level has the most energy of all the trophic levels in an energy pyramid. At the lowest level, photosynthetic organisms bring carbon into the food chain by fixating energy from the sun, and releasing oxygen into the water and atmosphere. As there are energy-utilizing life processes that must go on to ensure life in all organisms, even the primary consumers do not receive all energy that was produced by the producers. Available energy decreases as you near the top of the energy pyramid for this reason, with each level only receiving the energy that remained after a portion was used for the aforementioned life processes. thanx
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∙ 13y agoAt each link in an food chain, a good portion of the sun's energy is lost back into the environment, mainly as heat. It follows that the total amount of energy stored in the organism in a population is dependent on its trophic level. The total amount of energy of lions must be far less than the energy of the animals that they feed on. The animals the lions feed off of have only a fraction of the energy stored in the plants on which they feed. The decrease of maximum available energy at each higher trophic level is known as the pyramid of energy.
Plants are called producers because they are able to use light energy from the Sun to produce food (sugar) from carbon dioxide and water. Animals cannot make their own food so they must eat plants and/or other animals. They are called consumers. There are three groups of consumers.
1. Herbivores (eat plants)
2. Carnivores (eat other animals)
3. Omnivores (eat both)
Autotrophs
(Producers)
→
Herbivores
(Primary Consumers)
→
Carnivores
(Secondary Consumers)
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Decomposers
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∙ 12y agoBecause the producer and "bottom" of the food chain is always plant life (or algae) which gets energy directly from the sun. The sun is the main form of energy for life and is the most plentiful. Every animal going up the food-chain can absorb a lesser and lesser percent of the energy the plants had to begin with. So when a wolf eats a deer it is only getting a % of the energy the deer got from the plant. And the energy the deer got from the plant wasn't even close to 100% of the energy the plant got from the sun in the first place.
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in an energy pyramid , the most energy is available at which level of the pyramid
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Who has most energy at the pyramid level?
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The last level of the energy pyramid...secondary,tertiary...
Which level has the most energy in the pyramid?
Primary Producers.
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The energy pyramid shows how the amount of useful energy, food, decreases as organisms in that level use it. Even though a lot of energy may be taken in at any level, more energy in the form of food that is available to the next level, is stored on the bottom level and decreases at each level as you move to the top of the pyramid. Thus, there is much less energy to support organisms at the top, so there are fewer in most communities.
What is meant by the term energy pyramid?
It is when there is most energy at the producer level and each level you move up there is less energy.
Most of the energy at one level of a food pyramid is?
used to maintain life at that level
