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Biology — Energy Flow: Food Chain

Energy transfer and loss along a food chain.

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Energy flow through a food chainSunlight1000Producers1000Primary consumers100Decomposers201Heat lost799Secondary consumers10Conserved — 1000 in, 1000 out, across 6 nodes and 8 flows. The widths add up.6 nodes named only by a flow — `Sunlight`, `Producers`, `Primary consumers`, `Decomposers`, `Heat lost`, `Secondary consumers`. They are drawn under the bare …Conserved: 1000 enters at `Sunlight` and 1000 leaves at `Decomposers`, `Heat lost`, and every one of the 3 nodes between them passes on exactly what it receiv…

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title "Energy flow through a food chain"
flow "Sunlight" "Producers" 1000
flow "Producers" "Primary consumers" 100
flow "Producers" "Decomposers" 200
flow "Producers" "Heat lost" 700
flow "Primary consumers" "Secondary consumers" 10
flow "Primary consumers" "Heat lost" 90
flow "Secondary consumers" "Heat lost" 9
flow "Secondary consumers" "Decomposers" 1