WAEC - Biology (2024 - No. 29)

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.
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.

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. 

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