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What happens to the nutritional energy as it passes through the food chain?
Nutritional energy decreases as it passes through the food chain due to energy lost through metabolic processes, heat production, and waste. This concept is known as the 10% rule, where only about 10% of energy is transferred to each trophic level.
Energy that passes through a food chain is lost to the environment as?
heat
What is the path by which energy passes from one living thing to another?
Energy passes from one living thing to another through a food chain or food web. Producers, such as plants, convert sunlight into energy through photosynthesis. This energy is then consumed by herbivores, which are in turn consumed by carnivores or omnivores.
Energy passes from one organism to another through?
Passage of energy from one organism to another in a particular sequence is the food chain. The water cycle is a biogeochemical cycle consisting of an alternation of evaporation and condensation.
What is the one difference between a food chain and a food web?
A food chain refers to the transfer of energy in a single line from producers through herbivores and carnivores through a community. A food web is broader, it describes a nutritional picture of a ecosystem as a whole.
What 'a' means 'is eaten by' in a food chain?
In a food chain, 'a' represents the relationship where one organism is consumed as food by another organism. This shows the flow of energy through the ecosystem as it passes from one level to another.
What is the role of the producers in food chain?
In an ecosystem energy passes from one feeding level to another. Producers are plants that occupy the first level in the ecosystem. They are the only organisms that can convert the sun's energy into chemical energy through photosynthesis. When plants are consumed, energy is passed on the herbivores and then carnivores. Without producers in the food chain there would be no energy produced for other consumers of the food chain, which is vital to daily life.
What are the Light reactions steps?
As light is absorbed the electrons pass through the pigments. The energy passes through the PEA molecules in the thykaloid membrane. The energy moves through the electron transport chain. The energy has been replenished. Water splitting occurs in the Calvin Cycle. All of the energies are paired with a H plus ion.
How is energy carried through a food chain?
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Does the bottom of the food chain have the least or most energy?
By bottom, do you mean where the food chain starts(with plants) then YES :) only 10% passes on to each level :)
What level of the food chain has the most energy?
Producers, such as plants and algae, have the most energy in a food chain. They convert sunlight into energy through photosynthesis, making them the primary source of energy that flows through the ecosystem.
Explain how energy is transferred through a food chain?
Energy is transferred through a food chain as organisms consume other organisms. Primary producers, like plants, absorb energy from the sun through photosynthesis. Herbivores then consume plants, transferring the energy. Carnivores further transfer the energy by consuming herbivores. This process continues up the food chain, with each level of organisms consuming the energy stored in the organisms they consume.
