Question 51

(Multiple Choice)

Which of the following pairs is incorrectly matched?


A)production efficiency - energy in assimilated food that is not used for respiration
B)secondary production - the amount of chemical energy in a consumers' food that is converted to their new biomass in a given time period
C)tertiary production - the number of top predators in the food web
D)trophic efficiency - percentage of production transferred from one trophic level to the next
E)eutrophication - excess nutrients resulting in high cyanobacteria concentrations and algae blooms

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