Answer:
Your answer would be:
C.) Praire Grass
Step-by-step explanation:
In a prairie ecosystem, the population (grass, sun, etc.) with the most amount of stored energy for use by other organisms would be the prairie grasses. The grasses will gather the energy from the sun storing it. A herbivore would come along and eat it gaining energy from it. Unfortunately, the herbivore will only gain an amount of energy that is 10x less than the plant had. If a carnivore ate the herbivore then the carnivore would gain energy but 10x less than the carnivore had gained.
(Example)
Plant: 1,000,000 *gathers energy from the sun*
Herbivore: 100,000 *gains energy but, 10x less than the plant gained*
Carnivore: 10,000 *gains energy but, 10x less energy than the herbivore gained*
Fungus: 1,000 *in a process called decomposition the fungus will gather energy from a dead organism* *the energy it gets may vary because it depends if it is a herbivore or carnivore that has decomposed* *In this example however it is a carnivore*
Animals that eat fungus: 100
Animals that eat the animal up above: 10
And it's important to see that as the energy is dispersed more and more it, becomes less energy given to each organism.
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