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Producers are the most numerous group in an ecosystem. Why?

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Producers produce food energy for themselves and all the other levels. ⬜

Soil and temperature conditions in an ecosystem always favor producers. ⬜

As energy flows through the ecosystem, some energy is added at each step. ⬜

There is more room for small organisms than there is for large ones. ⬜

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Answer:

The primary producer uses some of that energy. Because we lose energy each time we move up a trophic level, we have more producers than consumers, more herbivores than carnivores, more primary consumers than secondary consumers. See this Socratic answer for more detail.

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Answer:

Producers produce food energy for themselves and all the other levels

Step-by-step explanation:

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