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Why does 10 percent of energy is passed from a producer to a consumer?
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The total energy passed from one level to the next is only about one-tenth of the energy received from the previous organism. Therefore, as you move up the food chain, there is less energy available. Animals located at the top of the food chain need a lot more food to meet their energy needs.
10% of energy gets transferred from a producer to a consumer.
The other 90% is eliminated at heat.
For example, things like flying, swimming and digesting.
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Where does a consumer get its energy from?
most living things get their energy from the sun, though indirectly. the bottom of the food chain depends on plants, then other animals eat those animals. Through each layer there is less energy being passed along, because most of the energy comes from the sun (and water and oxygen that plants need to produce energy), and is converted into usable energy by plants and the like
Who was buddy holly's producer?
Two of the main ones were Norman Petty and Owen Bradley. Both have passed on.
When energy is passed from organic molecules from producers to consumers what best describes this process?
pyramid of energy
Where do secondary consumers get there carbon from?
Nitrogen cant be used in gas form but can be used when it is in the soil so it is a nitrateproducers absorb the nitrates from the soilprimary consumers eat the producer e.g. grassthen the secondary consumer eats the primary consumernitrates are passed on through the food, just the same as energy.Nitrates also enter the soil by the animals excreting and when they decompose.hope this helps..
What happens to the amount of energy as it passed from producers to the first order consumers then to the second order consumers?
90% of the energy is lost every time something is consumed.
How much energy is transfered between consumers and producers?
Only about 10% of the energy from the producer is passed on to the consumer.
What level in the food chain has the highest energy?
The level in a food web with the highest amount of total available energy is the producer. The producer is a photosynthetic organism that can harness the energy from light that generally comes from the sun. As the energy is passed from trophic level to trophic level, only about 10-20% of the energy is passed on, while the rest is lost as heat. For instance, if a producer had a total energy amount of 60 kj/m2yr, then the primary consumer would only be able to gain 6-12 kj/m2yr.
Are nutrients passed when a consumer eats a producer?
Yes. Nutrients are passed when any organism eats another organism.
What happens to the amount of energy available as you move up the food web from producer to tertiary consumer?
It will decrease. The amount of energy that a producer makes will be used to maintain the needs of the primary consumer. That reduced amount will be used by the secondary consumer for their needs (growth and reproduction). That really leaves very little to be passed on. That is the reason why the numbers get smaller and smaller as you go up the food chain. There just isn't enough energy for many in the third level.
Why is energy lost at each level of an energy pyramid?
10% 1% Energy from sun(100%)---->Producer--->Primary consumer-->Secondary consumer (90%) 9% 0.9%
What fraction of food energy can be passed on to another consumer?
Only 10% of food energy is passed on to another comsumer.
Which level in the food web contains the highest amount of total available energy?
The level in a food web with the highest amount of total available energy is the producer. The producer is a photosynthetic organism that can harness the energy from light that generally comes from the sun. As the energy is passed from trophic level to trophic level, only about 10-20% of the energy is passed on, while the rest is lost as heat. For instance, if a producer had a total energy amount of 60 kj/m2yr, then the primary consumer would only be able to gain 6-12 kj/m2yr.
How much energy does a first level consumer receive?
Not as much as the producer has because they use some of the energy they have used some energy for things like growth and repair and create more energy by using photosynthesis.
What happens to the energy as it is passed from the producer to a series of consumers?
It gets used up on the way.
Explain what is meant by the statement The amount of food energy passed along grows smaller and smaller as the chain becomes longer?
That statement is talking about a food chain and the amount of available energy: The most energy is available at the producer level. A producer is a plant that gets energy from the sun. The producer is able to make lots of energy by photosynthesis. Then the producer gets eaten by a first-level consumer. This is typically an herbivore (something that eats only plants) but could also be an omnivore (something that eats both plants and meat). Either way, when the first-level consumer eats the producer, it uses most of the energy for its life processes. Life processes are things like growing, having energy to go find more food, reproducing, and caring for young. Surplus energy is stored in the form of fat. This first-level producer gets eaten by a second-level consumer. This might be a carnivore (something that eats only meat) or another omnivore. The second-level consumer can only get the stored energy from its food. This means that there is less energy available to it than there was to the first-level consumer. This chain continues, with less and less energy being available at each step. Because of this fact, there needs to be many producers and low level consumers to support the higher level consumers.
What is flow the energy to a third -level consumer if the producer provides 1500 calories of energy to the first-level consumer?
Only about 10% is passed from level to level. In this case it is 10% of 1500 calories or 150 calories. This the reason why there has to be many, many producers and why there are only a few consumers. And why you will only see a few eagles or wolves at the very top of the pyramid.
As you move upward from level to level in a energy pyramid energy?
um.....the 4 main levels are producer, primary consumer, secondary consumer, and teritiary consumer. The energy gets smaller as you move from each level to the animal that consumes it. For example, plankton can have 1000 energy bits, but when it moves up to trout, only 100 energy bits move on to the trout. When the heron eats the trout, the heron only gets 10 energy bits passed onto its body from the trout. Remember to finish your question next time. I hope that i have answered your needs.As always,iLuvScienceBcuzItIzCool
