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Question 13 of 15 • TX-Environmental Systems A-CR

Summarize why the pyramid of energy can never be inverted like the pyramids of numbers and biomass can.

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Since energy is lost going up every trophic level of the pyramid of energy, the biggest levels are always on the bottom. An organism can only pass as much energy as exists in its body, so when the loss associated with each transition is included, the bottom of any two levels must be larger.

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