Question 30
Feeding Relationships and Energy FlowThe illustration below is a food chain: Grasses → Grasshoppers → Lizards → Hawks. If the individual species of organisms in the food chain are counted and arranged as a pyramid, the result would be a pyramid of
- A.numbers.
- B.energy.
- C.biomass
- D.biomes.
Show the answer and explanation
Answer: A (numbers.)
Explanation
Counting the individuals at each feeding level gives a pyramid of numbers.