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(b) Why do food chains in an ecosystem generally consist of only three or four steps?
(b) Why do food chains in an ecosystem generally consist of only three or four steps?
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(b) Only 10% of energy passes from one trophic level to the next. The loss of energy at each step is so great that very little usable energy remains after four trophic levels. (2)