In an energy pyramid approximately 10 percent of energy available in one trophic level transferred to the next level. Which statement helps explain why this occurs?

A. Consumers eat both producers and other consumers.


B. Organisms use most of the available energy to fuel their own life processes.


C. Predators eat more organisms in their own level than organisms in other level.


D. Producers exist in the lower level of the lowest level of the pyramid.