In other words, when a grasshopper eats grass, it receives one tenth the amount of energy that the grass made during photosynthesis. The snake gets one-tenth of the grasshopper's stored energy-just one-hundredth of what was in the grass. This situation can be depicted as a pyramid. The wide base represents producers, with the most energy. At successive trophic levels the amount of energy decreases, so the pyramid narrows. The tip of the pyramid symbolizes the highest-level consumer. Very little of the original energy made available by producers remains at this level.