Imagine you were going to model the flow of energy in an ecosystem and the flow of elements in the ecosystem using a diagram. compare and contrast your diagrams for these two systems

Energy is catch by producers then given in a linear progression from one tropic level to the next. At each level, much of the energy escapes the ecosystem as heat. Unlike this one-way flow of energy, matter is recycled within and between ecosystems. Elements passage from one organism to another and among parts of the non-living environment through closed loops called biochemical cycles.

1. a host loses nutrients to a parasite

2. a parasite only benefits when the host is alive (cause if the host dies the parasite dies with it )

3. producers to consumers

4. the tapeworm is a parasite

5. they convert energy from the sun (photosynthesis)

6. sunflower-robin (i think im 80% sure)

7. producer

8. consumer

9. prey

10. fresh water snails ( cause the green algea is the producer and the snails are the primary consumers and the small fish consumer so is the big fish)

the correct option is option d