ENERGY TRANSFER
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Producers use energy from sunlight to make molecules of sugar.
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Consumers use this sugar as a form of chemical energy to do work.
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Every time energy is transferred within an ecosystem, some energy changes form.
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Not all of the chemical energy (food) that a plant creates can reach the animal that eats it.
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In every ecosystem, there is less energy available to secondary consumers than primary consumers.