Energy pyhamids, otherwise known as trophic level diagrams, are used to represent the flow of energy through an ecosystem. An organisms trophic level indicates the organism's position in
the sequence of energy transfers. The bottom, or base, of an energy pyramid is a position
always held by the producers and represents (by far) the largest percentage of biomass for
the food web. The need for such a large biomass of producers is to support the energy
needs for all the organisms at higher trophic levels. Draw and label an energy pyramid for the
following 1 hectare of farmland:
• 30,000,000 MJ of Sunlight (solar energy) reaches ground level during a 150-day growing
season
• 52,164 MJ of energy is stored in the soybeans grown on the hectare of land
1,645 MJ of energy is stored in edible beef by cattlewho eat the soybeans