SCIENCE
ECOLOGY
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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More consumers than producers
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An equal amount of producers and consumers
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A lot more producers at the bottom and few top predators at the top
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Don’t pick this one obviously
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Detailed explanation-1: -Food Chains and Webs Producers, who make their own food using photosynthesis or chemosynthesis, make up the bottom of the trophic pyramid. Primary consumers, mostly herbivores, exist at the next level, and secondary and tertiary consumers, omnivores and carnivores, follow.
Detailed explanation-2: -Why is the bottom of the food chain (web) so important? BECAUSE EVERYTHING AT THE TOP RELIES ON THE ENERGY PRODUCED ON THE BOTTOM.
Detailed explanation-3: -As you probably know, the organisms at the base of the food chain are photosynthetic; plants on land and phytoplankton (algae) in the oceans. These organisms are called the producers, and they get their energy directly from sunlight and inorganic nutrients.
Detailed explanation-4: -The bottom-up effect means that a lower trophic level in the biological network affects the community structure of higher trophic levels by means of resource restriction [12]. The top-down effect refers to a higher trophic level influences the community structure of a lower trophic level through predation [10].