An energy pyramid is ____

a. a demonstration of the first law of thermodynamics
b. a representation of the decline in available energy as it travels through the trophic levels
c. fundamentally different from the pyramid of biomass and the pyramid of numbers
d. a demonstration of the interactions between species in a community
e. a representation of an ecosystem's diversity


ANSWER: b

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