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Card 6

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What do pyramids of biomass show?

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Card 7

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Explain why pyramids of numbers and pyramids of biomass for the same food chains can be different shapes.

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Card 8

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What are the difficulties when constructing pyramids?(2)

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Card 9

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Is energy transferred to more or less useful forms at each trophic scale?

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Card 10

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What three things is energy transferred into at each trophic scale?

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Card 11

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How can excretory products, faeces and uneaten parts be used as the starting point for other food chains?

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Card 12

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How does the efficiency of energy transfer explain the shape of pyramids of biomass?

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Card 13

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Explain how the efficiency of energy transfer explains the limited length of food chains.

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Card 14

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How do you calculate the efficiency of energy transfer?

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