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Which statement best explains why levels of an energy pyramid do not have the same amount of energy?(1 point)
Responses

Plants need more energy than animals.
Plants need more energy than animals.

Living systems create energy when they eat.
Living systems create energy when they eat.

Some energy is destroyed between levels.
Some energy is destroyed between levels.

Some energy is released to the atmosphere between levels.

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Answered by GPT-4o mini
The statement that best explains why levels of an energy pyramid do not have the same amount of energy is:

**Some energy is released to the atmosphere between levels.**

This reflects the second law of thermodynamics, which states that energy is not completely transferred from one trophic level to the next; instead, some energy is lost as heat during metabolic processes.
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