By which organisms that contain the pigment chlorophyll convert light energy into chemical energy which can be stored in the molecular bonds of organic molecules.
As you move up to the food chain, the energy will decrease. This explains that the more the consumers, the lesser the energy that the last consumer will get from the sunlight. This is because each energy will decrease as it passes by the consumers because each consumers takes a portion of the full energy from the sun.
<span>Pesticide use is harmful to human agriculture because it
contains an antifreezing chemical (present in transportation vehicles). When
the chemical seeps into the leaves of the plant, it is distributed all over its
body and remains there. The chemical may still be present there when we are
going to the plant.</span>
Grinding pepper is not an example of a chemical change.
Answer: Energy is not recycled once it passes from producer to consumer to decomposer.
The energy flow in an ecosystem in the form of food from one organism to other is food chain. It comprises mainly of three types of organisms producers or autotrophs, consumers or heterotrophs and decomposers. The energy flow in food chain or food web is unidirectional from plants which are the primary producers to primary consumers or herbivores, then to secondary consumers or carnivores and finally to the decomposers. On its unidirectional flow the energy is lost in different form such as heat loss, decay, respiration etc. The energy passed from one level to another is not the same and gets lost in the process so when the energy is received from one tropic level to another it is always less than that received by the previous tropic level.
