The pyramid of energy is
A) a demonstration of the first law of thermodynamics.
B) a result in the decline in the energy available as energy travels through the trophic levels.
C) fundamentally different from the pyramid of biomass and the pyramid of numbers.
D) just one of the manifestations of competition.
E) the result of eating the correct foods.

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The pyramid of energy represents the decrease in available energy as it moves up the trophic levels, due to energy loss as heat and metabolic processes. This is known as the second law of thermodynamics. The pyramid of energy is different from the pyramid of biomass and the pyramid of numbers because it takes into account the actual energy content rather than just the physical mass or number of organisms.

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