ECOLOGY
ORGANISMS AND THE ENVIRONMENT
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Question
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As you move up from one trophic level to another, why is only 10% of energy from the previous level passed on?
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producers get 100% of the energy
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it’s lost as heat and to perform life functions.
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primary consumers keep misplacing the rest.
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none of these
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Everytime an organism consumes something, 90% of the energy is lost as heat during respiration, in digestion, etc. Only 10% is involved in building the body tissue. This 10% is passed to the next trophic level and so on.
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