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Our Environment — Science STD 10 — Question

Maharashtra BoardEnglish MediumSTD 10ScienceOur Environment2 Marks
Question
Explain why, a food chain usually cannot have more than three or four steps.
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Answer

Food chain generally consists of three or four steps because after that the energy available for the next organism will be so small that it will be insufficient to sustain the life of that organism.

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