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andre [41]
3 years ago
8

Why can’t food chains go on forever?

Biology
1 answer:
bearhunter [10]3 years ago
7 0

Answer:

Because at some point in that food chain, the energy consumption has it's limit, and the predator will not have anything to hunt it. There is a limited amount of energy in a food chain that can go around, and once you reach the predator, that energy doesn't quite run out but it hits that limit where the chain has to repeat itself.

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