Ap Biology? Multiple Choice? 10 easy point =D?

Question

Food chains are sometimes short because

A. Only a single species of herbivores feed on each plant species

B. Local extension of a species causes extinctions of the other species in its food chain

C. Most of the energy in a trophic level is lost as it passes to the next highest level

D. predators species tend to be less diverse and less abundant than prey species

E. Most predators are inedible

Plz state why to ur answer

Thx and best answer

=D

Answer 1

C.  Only about 10% of the energy from one trophic level gets passed on in a useful form to the next.  The rest is lost to entropy.

Answer 2

its B