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Energy Pyramid
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Energy Pyramid
By: Rosemary Hyon, Amanda Ly, and Jasleen Mendoza
Energy from the sun is passed to the grass
There is no limit to the number of trophic levels that the food chain can support.
The consumer uses 90% of the energy, which leaves only a certain amount for the next consumer in the next trophic level
0.1% 3rd Consumers
Organisms use the energy that they gain from food for life processes:
- respiration
-movement
-reproduction
An energy pyramid is a graphical model of energy flow in a community
1% 2nd Consumers
10% 1st consumers
The cow eats the grass and the energy from the grass is transferred to the cow.
The Energy Pyramid
100% producers
Soon, a human will eat the cow and receive the transferred energy from the meat.
10% of the available energy in one level would be transferred to the next organisms.
Less energy remains from the original amount started.