Question

What is a food chain? Give a specific ex. Why in a food
chain more than 4/5 trophic levels are not possible? If we
remove all the organisms of a trophic level what would​

Answer 1

Answer:

Any food chain has a maximum of only 4 or 5 trophic levels. This is because according to the 10% law of transfer of energy, only 10% of the energy of any organism at a perticular trophic level is available to another organism at the higher trophic level

Explanation:

As you progress through each trophic, each organism on that level loses energy gained from the previous trophic. This is due to losing energy through wasted material (e.g. bones) and to life processes, 7 of which can be remembered by MRS GREN:

M ovement

R espiration

S ensitivity

G rowth

R eproduction

E xcretion

N utrition

This means that each time, energy is wasted and lost from the food chain. More than four trophics would result in so much energy being lost from the initial trophic (producer), that it would be largely pointless!