Question

a
What type of changes occur in the
amount of energy during its transfer
from plants to apex consumers?
b. What are the differences between
flow of matter and of energy in an
ecosystem? Why?​

Answer 1

Explanation:

a.Answer. Energy is lost as it gets transferred from one organism to another. Energy decreases as it moves up from one trophic level to another because energy is lost as metabolic heat when the organism of one trophic level consumes the organisms of another trophic level.

There is a fundamental difference in the way energy and matter flows through an ecosystem. Matter flows through the ecosystem in the form of the non-living nutrients essential to living organisms. ... So you see, matter is recycled in the ecosystem. Unlike matter, energy is not recycled through the system