ECOLOGY
ECOSYSTEM
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Question
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The primary consumers will eat all of the producers ____
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The primary consumers will become the producers and perform photosynthesis
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The producers will become primary consumers
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This is DEFINITELY not the right answer.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Therefore, it can be stated that there are a greater number of organisms that are producers than there are the number of tertiary consumers. If something occurs where there are more primary consumers than producers, an ecosystem becomes unstable and likely to have problems or even collapse.
Detailed explanation-2: -Trophic Levels and Biomass Organisms tend to be larger in size at higher trophic levels, but their smaller numbers result in less biomass. Biomass is the total mass of organisms at a trophic level. The decrease in biomass from lower to higher levels is also represented by the Figure above.
Detailed explanation-3: -Answer and Explanation: In most ecosystems, the largest energy level and largest biomass can be found on the producer level. This occurs because producers obtain their energy from the sun, which is the most readily available resource and hence the most abundant at that level.
Detailed explanation-4: -The higher the organism is on the trophic pyramid, the lower the amount of available energy. For example, plants and other autotrophs (primary producers) convert only a fraction of the enormous amount of solar energy they have access to into food energy.