Question

An energy pyramid for an ecosystem is shown below. The producers in the ecosystem produce 25,000 kilocalories per year. How much of the energy is most likely available to the organisms in Level 2 of the pyramid?Question 15 options:250 kilocalories per year2,500 kilocalories per year25,000 kilocalories per year

Answer 1

As we know each time energy passes from trophic level to trophic level, a smaller amount of energy passes generally is applied the 10% rule, that is to say, that only te 10% of the energy in one level will pass to the second level, so if we apply this into the current problem we have that level 1 are producers, and the second level receives only 10% of the 25,000 available kilocalories, which is 25,000X0.10= 2,500, therefore the correct answer is the second option.