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What is biomass? Draw a pyramid of biomass for the given food chain (AS1)

A. grass leaves B. Herbivores C. Predators D. Hawk

i. The mass of living material of the total number of organisms in at a particular trophic level.

ii. The biomass in each trophic level is always less than the trophic level below because biomass is a measure of the amount of food available.



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