The amount of available energy changes between the trophic levels found in a food chain or energy pyramid. A food chain. Arrows
point from one stage to the next. The stages are leaves, mouse, snake, hawk. Photos (left to right) by Mehmet Karatay, Jens Buurgaard Nielsen, Furryscaly, and Walter Siegmund How would the amount of available energy differ in the trophic level of the mouse compared to the trophic level of the hawk? a. Available energy would increase from the mouse to the hawk. B. Available energy would decrease from the mouse to the hawk. C. Available energy would initially increase from the mouse to the hawk, and then decrease over time. D. Available energy would remain the same from the mouse to the hawk. Please select the best answer from the choices provided A B C D.
The trophic pyramid, or the energy pyramid, shows the advancement of food and nutrient energy in the ecosystem. The base of the pyramid comprises producers that make their food from inorganic resources followed by all the consumers above it.
Available energy would decrease from the mouse to the hawk.
<h3>How the energy transfer occurs?</h3>
In a food chain or pyramid, a certain amount or the per cent of the energy passes from the producers to the consumer levels and some of the energy is lost in the surroundings as heat.
In the food chain of the given ecosystem, the leaves are the producers and make food with the help of sun energy and pass to its primary consumer mouse.
Some percentage of the energy is passed from the mouse to the secondary consumer snake and eventually to the tertiary consumer hawk.
When the energy passes from mouse to hawk it gets reduced and is not the same as the energy available to the producers or consumers of primary or secondary levels.
