Oceanic Feeding Relationships and the Transfer of Energy

In the ocean environment, organisms must consume other organisms in order to gain energy. They do this in a variety of ways, based on their personal anatomy and the type of organism that they need to eat. In this topic, you learned how energy flows through the oceans. This flow of energy is described in food webs and energy pyramids. As energy moves from one tropic level to the next, not all of the energy is transferred. When one organism consumes another, only ten percent of energy makes it to the next trophic level.