The illustration below is a food chain. Study it and answer questions 29 and 30.
Grasses → Grasshoppers → Lizards → Hawks
Which of the following statements is not correct about the food chain? The number of
- grasses eaten by grasshoppers is greater than the number of grasshoppers.
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grasses eaten by grasshoppers is fewer than the number of grasshoppers.
- grasshoppers eaten by lizards is greater than the number of lizards.
- lizards eaten by hawks is greater than the number of hawks.
The correct answer is: B
Explanation
In a food chain, energy is transferred from one trophic level to the next, with each level typically having fewer individual than the previous ones.In a food chain, producers have more energy than primary consumers. Producers are the first level in a food chain, and they produce their own food using energy from the sun. Primary consumers are the next level up in the food chain, and they eat the producers.