Topic 10 - Energy and Biomass in Food Chains
- Created by: Alice Cullen
- Created on: 30-03-17 19:37
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- Radiation from the sun is the source of energy for most communities of living organisms
- Green plants and algae absorb a small amount of the light that reaches them
- The transfer from light energy to chemical energy occurs during photosynthesis
- The energy is stored in the substamces that make up the cells of the plants
- The mass of a living material (biomass) at each stage in the food chain is less that it was at the previous stage because:
- Some materials and energy are always lost…
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