The main process of transferring energy to the surroundings at each stage of the food chain is... growth nutrition reproduction respiration
ORIGINAL ANSWER: through the process called decomposition which breaks down the animals cells through cellular respiration and the mitochondria oxygen. ^ l l this answer might be right but if i were you i would do some further research and see if this is correct NEW ANSWER: energy moves through an ecosystem when an organism is eaten. As you go up each trophic level, 10% of energy is transferred up. Matter on the other hand, is neither lost or gained. so it just moves up the trophic levels
A food chain.
the energy Converter is called FOOD CHAIN or maybe ENERGY PYRAMID :))
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The main process of transferring energy to the surroundings at each stage of the food chain is... growth nutrition reproduction respiration
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an energy pyramid
Because energy can be 'lost' by heat at each tier of the food chain.
Well a lot of the energy is used in keeping the animal alive, only a portion of the energy is used for growth. So when a deer eats plants, a lot of the energy is used to keep the deer's homeostasis stable, so if a wolf eats a deer it only gets the deer's residual energy.
as we go up the food chain, of course, the energy will decrease... it is because, from the primary producer, the primary consumer consumes it until the consumer will become the producer... and the cycle preceeds.. the energy will decrease because of the cycle..
Some energy is lost at each level since not all energy is transferred from the food to the consumer.
it covers choclate covered donuts(: just kiding i have no cluezzz
A pyramid is bigger at the bottom and small and pointy at the top. so its bigger at the bottom, otherwise it would have been called an energy upside-down pyramid =). But anyway, energy enters a food chain from the sun. some energy and biomass is lost at each stage of a food chain as feaces, movement energy and heat energy (especiall birds and mammals). therefore only a small amount of energy and biomass is incorporated into a consumer's body and transferred to the next feeding level. the loss of energy and biomass at each stage is a representation of why the pyramid gets smaller at the top.
Energy enters a food chain in the form of sunlight, and leaves the food chain in the form of heat.
Heat, Food, Energy are some ways energy are lost at each level of the food chain.
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