WAEC Biology 2024 Question 30

Question 30

Feeding Relationships and Energy Flow

The 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

  1. A.numbers.
  2. B.energy.
  3. C.biomass
  4. D.biomes.
Show the answer and explanation

Answer: A (numbers.)

Explanation

Counting the individuals at each feeding level gives a pyramid of numbers.