Question

Explain why energy transfer from producers to primary consumers is less efficient from primary consumers to secondary consumers

Answer 1

Explanation:

The organisms that eat the producers are the primary consumers. They tend to be small in size and there are many of them. ... About 50% of the energy (possibly as much as 90%) in food is lost at each trophic level when an organism is eaten, so it is less efficient to be a higher order consumer than a primary consumer.