Question

1. valeria claims that owls have the most energy available to them because they are at the top of a food chain as tertiary consumers. do you agree or disagree? use evidence from the energy pyramid above and vocabulary from this unit to support your own claim. i agree (disagree because)

Explanation:

In an energy pyramid, energy decreases as you move up the trophic levels. Tertiary consumers like owls are at the top. Producers at the base capture energy from the sun and pass only a fraction of it to primary consumers, then secondary, and finally tertiary consumers. So, owls have the least energy available to them.

Answer:

I disagree because in an energy - pyramid, energy is transferred from one trophic level to the next with only about 10% of the energy being passed on. Since owls are tertiary consumers at the top of the food - chain, they receive only a small portion of the original energy captured by producers.