BW: Energy Flow

There is less available energy in the fourth trophic level because of the loss of energy through metabolism in each of the lower trophic levels.

There is less energy available in the producers because their tissues are less dense than those at higher trophic levels.

There is more energy available in the second trophic level because less energy is needed for hunting compared to the higher trophic levels.

There is more available energy in the birds of prey because they have greater muscle mass for storing energy than organisms in lower trophic levels have.

The absorption of newly created energy from the environment

Energy released from metabolism into the environment as heat

The transport of glucose away from the organism through photosynthesis.

Oxygen released during cellular respiration

Prairie rattlesnakes will become herbivores.

Silk grass and sand sagebrush populations will decrease.

Golden eagle and kit fox populations will decrease.

Sagebrush grasshoppers will consume soil bacteria.