Question

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8. Explain the following with suitable
examples.
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?
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Answer 1

Answer:

Explanation:

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. When a living organism dies, nutrients are released back into the soil. These nutrients then are absorbed by plants, which are eaten by the herbivores. Matter, once again, is passed on. The herbivore is eaten by a carnivore (and matter is yet again transferred therein). Ultimately, when the carnivore dies, matter is returned back to the soil by the decomposers and the cycle repeats. So you see, matter is recycled in the ecosystem.

Unlike matter, energy is not recycled through the system. A part of the energy is lost at each stage. 

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