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Energy can be lost in a food chain by heat or waste.
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Where does the main source of energy in the food chain come from?
Sun
What is the name of the process that heterotropsh gets energy from?
Heterotrophs get energy by eating plants. The process is called food chain.
What happens to the total amount of energy as it flows through a food chain?
the energy amount increases as other organisms eat other organizms.
The amount of energy that is transferred at each level of the food chain is about?
It depends on the activity of the animal in question but it is usually around 10%.
Why is the transfer of energy and matter in a food chain only about 10 efficient?
Because 90% is released into the environment asheat...............i think..............
What is lost from a food chain?
energy
Once energy is lost in a food chain it can never be?
Once energy is lost in a food chain, it cannot be recovered. Energy is continually lost as heat through metabolic processes and other activities, leading to a decrease in available energy as it moves through trophic levels in a food chain. This is known as the second law of thermodynamics.
How is energy lost from the food chain?
Heat and excretement and tuna!
Why is energy in a food chain linear?
Because it is lost at the end .
Why is there less energry at the end of a food chain?
Because energy can be 'lost' by heat at each tier of the food chain.
How energy lost in an ecosystem?
Heat energy
Energy that passes through a food chain is lost to the environment as?
heat
When energy is lost in a food chain it can never be?
Energy lost in a food chain is converted into heat and cannot be reused by organisms. This is known as the second law of thermodynamics, which states that energy is not created or destroyed, only transferred and transformed.
Why is only some energy transferred in a food chain?
energy is lost through heat excretion and movement
Where does energy go in a food chain or web?
Heat, Food, Energy are some ways energy are lost at each level of the food chain.
How energy is lost at each level in a food chain?
Energy is lost at each level in a food chain through processes like respiration, feces production, and heat loss. As organisms consume each other, only about 10% of the energy from one trophic level is passed on to the next due to inefficiencies in energy transfer. This results in a pyramid of biomass, where higher trophic levels have less energy available than lower levels.
Why is there a limit to the number of energy transfers in a food chain thermodynamics?
There is a limit to the number of energy transfers in a food chain because with each transfer, some energy is lost as heat due to inefficiencies in metabolism and other biological processes. As energy is lost at each trophic level, there is not enough energy available to sustain a large number of links in a food chain. This is known as the 10% rule, where only about 10% of the energy is transferred to the next trophic level.
