how does energy flow in the ecosystem?
2007-09-23 15:50:17 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
Energy flows in a food chain or food web in each tropic level. The living things in the ecosystem absorb energy. Energy is lost in each tropic level.
For example,
Sun(energy source) ----> green plants(producers) ------> grasshoppers(primary consumer) --------> frogs(secondary consumer). Energy flows in this food chain. It is being absorbed and lost.
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2007-09-24 00:38:22 · answer #1 · answered by in 30mins 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Energy flow is described as being one-way through an ecosystem.
Sun --> producers --> consumers --> and so on through the food chain.
This contrasts with the flow of materials like carbon or nitrogen which cycle round and round and round through the ecosystem.
2007-09-23 15:56:17 · answer #2 · answered by ecolink 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Chemical energy, converted by producers from light energy, is passed onto heterotrophic organisms when they feed. This flow of energy in nature is in a single direction: From Producers To Consumers.
2015-02-04 11:56:49 · answer #3 · answered by Tya 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
like a mo
2016-05-17 07:30:13 · answer #4 · answered by chantell 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋