Figure 55-1 Use the Figure to Answer the Corresponding Question(s)

question 35

Multiple Choice

Figure 55-1
Use the figure to answer the corresponding question(s) .
-The distribution in Figure 55-1 could be inverted:

• A) if the producers had a high rate of productivity and reproduction, coupled with intense predation.
• B) if the rate of biomass production of the primary consumers is greater than that of the producers.
• C) if the rate of productivity of the primary consumers is greater than the primary productivity.
• D) if the standing biomass of the producers is greater than the biomass of all of the consumers.
• E) only under artificial or laboratory conditions.

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