When energy passes from one trophic level to the next, I would guess that the two factors which decrease the total amount of energy from being passed up are:
1. An organism does not assimilate all the energy of food consumed. Within a consumer, digestion and assimilation of energy is not 100% efficient: some of the energy is lost.
2. A large proportion of energy assimilated by a producer and consumer is lost through respiration, i.e., day-to-day maintenance of metabolic processes.
The Kingdom Protista has a bunch of organisms thrown into the category because scientists have yet to sort them out properly. In the future these classifications might become more specific.
Answer:
88
Explanation:
gametes have half the chromosomes so it could mix with the other sex in sexual reproduction
It is called hydrosphere
It is the total water in Earth.
<span>exploitation to the point of diminishing returns so other words overuse </span><span />