Energy In Biomass

Question 1

What is biomass?

Answer 1

It is the mass of a living material

Question 2

How does biomass change at each stage in the food chain?

Answer 2

At each stage in a food chain is leads that it was at the previous stage. The biomass at each stage can be drawn to scale and shown as a pyramid of biomass

Question 3

Why does the amount of material and energy contains in the biomass of organisms reduced at each stage in the food chain?

Answer 3

Some materials and energy are always lost in the organisms’ wast materials
Respiration supplies all the energy needed for living processes, including movement. Much of this energy is eventually transferred to the surroundings.
The organism may have died

Question 4

What is radiation from the sun a source of?

Answer 4

It is a source of energy for most communities of living organisms. Green plants and algae absorb a small amount of the light that reaches them. The transfer from light energy to chemical energy occurs during photosynthesis. This energy is stored in the substance that make up the cells of the plant