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Fantom [35]
3 years ago
5

Why do food chains in an ecosystem rarely contain more than five organisms?

Biology
2 answers:
Gelneren [198K]3 years ago
6 0
The answer should be D because if thats one of your answers on your tests and you missed it, then i would recemend studing. D is the answer because if organisms die, then new ones grow.
MAXImum [283]3 years ago
6 0
Well as you move along a food chain, energy is lost due to excrement, growth, respiration, etc. So having a really long food chain would mean very few nutrients from the original plant would actually make it to the apex predator. From that knowledge, C looks like the answer. Nutrients definitely aren't lost from an ecosystem, and I don't see how recycling nutrients or energy would be a limiting factor on the length of a food chain, since it can happen at any point on it
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