Food Chains Are Sometimes Short Because ________

question 25

Multiple Choice

Food chains are sometimes short because ________.

• A) only a single species of herbivore feeds on each plant species
• B) local extinction of a species causes extinction of the other species in its food chain
• C) most of the energy in a trophic level is lost as it passes to the next higher level
• D) predator species tend to be less diverse and less abundant than prey species