EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -The amount of energy transferred from a lower trophic level to a higher trophic level always decreases as energy is lost at each step as heat. Only 10 percent of energy is transferred from one trophic level to the next.

Detailed explanation-2: -Only about 10% of the energy is transferred from one trophic level to another. The rest is used for life processes of the organism and some is lost as heat.

Detailed explanation-3: -The amount of energy at each trophic level decreases as it moves through an ecosystem. As little as 10 percent of the energy at any trophic level is transferred to the next level; the rest is lost largely through metabolic processes as heat.

Detailed explanation-4: -Lindemann gave the ten percent law in 1942. This law states that only 10 percent of energy in a food chain out of the total energy is transferred from one trophic level to another. The rest of the energy is utilized for other metabolic processes and some are released as heat.

Detailed explanation-5: -What is the 10 percent law of energy flow? The 10 percent law of energy flow states that when the energy is passed on from one trophic level to another, only 10 percent of the energy is passed on to the next trophic level.