Question

Energy can flow from apex predator to producers​

Answer 1

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A food chain consists of a series of organisms in which the first organism is eaten by a second and the second is eaten by a third. During this process, nutrients and energy in the eaten organism are transferred to the organism that eats it.

Answer 2

Energy can flow from apex predators to producers. The statement is TRUE.

• In ecosystems, the flow of matter and energy stirs from the top of the trophic pyramid, through the several kinds of consumers, up to the apex predators. Producers apprehend energy from the sun and turn it into food. This food is stocked in the bodies of plants. Primary consumers eat the plants whereas, secondary and tertiary consumers the herbivores eat primary consumers.
• The flow of matter and energy from the lowermost trophic levels to the top is ineffective. All of the stored energy cannot be transported from one level of the pyramid to the following. Consumers must utilize some of this energy for their own life procedures and some of the energy is forfeited to the environment as heat. About ninety per cent of the energy apprehended in each trophic level is lost to the environment. Thus, in an ecosystem with five trophic levels which are producers, primary consumers, secondary consumers, tertiary consumers, and apex predators, just ten per cent of the energy apprehended in each level is shifted to the next level.

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