Energy Loss Between Levels

“If your child was asked why there are so many more plants than foxes in a field, could they explain how energy gets lost at every step of a food chain and what that means for the size of each population?”

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• ⬜Explains that only about 10% of energy passes from one trophic level to the next
• ⬜Constructs a pyramid of biomass from data and explains its shape
• ⬜Identifies where energy is lost at each trophic level (heat, movement, waste)
• ⬜Explains why food chains rarely have more than five trophic levels