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How is energy passed along in the food chain and food web PLEASE HELP QUICK

LenKa [72]

<span>The energy (from food) an organism consumes is mostly burned for the purposes of movement and keeping warm. In terms of the trophic levels, this is energy "wasted" (heat radiated by an animal out to the surrounding environment) and not passed on to the next level as consumable food. For instance, imagine that the sun's rays (the ultimate source of energy in the "food chain") striking a portion of the ocean on the Earth's surface is equal to one million energy units. Much of that energy is absorbed by the ocean's water molecules, but the amount left over is intercepted by phytoplankton and turned into food by photosynthesis. At this first trophic level, the amount of energy the phytoplankton store as food is 20,000 units. At the next trophic level, the zooplankton consume the phytoplankton, but just 2,000 units of energy is passed on as food in the bodies of the tiny animals. Small fish (at the next trophic level) scoop up the little zooplankton, but their bodies only represent 10% of the previous level's energy units - therefore, the amount of energy left is now 200 units. By the time large fish at their trophic level eat the smaller fish, 20 energy units remain. Finally, at the point where humans (at the final trophic level) catch these fish, only 1 or 2 energy units are left. As this example shows, the approximate efficiency at which energy is transferred through the "food chain" from one level to the next highlights the great amount of energy lost in an ecosystem, and how a relatively small amount of energy is actually available to an organism in the form of food that it needs to survive and perpetuate.</span>

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You weighed out 0.020 g of your crude aspirin product in order to determine the amount of salicylic acid impurity. Following the

Kitty [74]

Answer:

The correct answer is 7.8 percent.

Explanation:

As mentioned in the given question, the absorbance (A) of the sample solution is 1.07. To find the concentration of aspirin, Beer's law is used, that is, A = ebc

Here, e is the extinction coefficient, which is equal to 139.322 M^-1cm^-1 as per the standard value for salicylic acid, b is the pathlength, which is equivalent to 1 cm. Now putting the values we get,

A = ebc

c = A / (eb)

c = 1.07 / (139.322 × 1)

c = 0.00768 M

Now to determine the percent salicylic acid in the sample, there is a need to compare the value of concentration determined with the concentration of aspirin given initially.

0.02 grams is the initial concentration of aspirin mentioned in the question. The molar mass of aspirin is 240 g/mol.

Therefore, the moles of aspirin will be,

0.02 / 240 = 8.33 × 10^-5 moles

The final volume of the diluted solution given is 10 ml or 0.01 liters.

The molarity of aspirin in the diluted solution will be,

c1 = 8.33 × 10^-5 / 0.01 = 8.33 × 10^-3 M or 0.00833 M

Now, the percent of salicylic acid in the product will be,

c1 - c / c1 × 100

(0.00833 - 0.00768) / 0.00833 × 100 = 7.8 %

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Which best represents a reaction mechanism?

PIT_PIT [208]

A + B = Products
This is the correct mechanism.

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What is the function of the cytoplasm?

olga_2 [115]

Answer:

The cytoplasm is a thick solution that fills all cells.it helps to give a cell its shape

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Copper has an atomic number of 29 that means there are 29 protons in the nucleus of each copper atom that's what the atomic numb

Aliun [14]

29 electrons assuming no other charges

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