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90% is lost at each level. Starting at 100% for the producers, the next level gets only 10% and the next gets 1%. It is very hard to get a fourth level as there isn't enough energy left. However a fourth level can be found in tropical rainforests.
Ten percent of the energy in each trophic level makes it to the next level.
10% 1% Energy from sun(100%)---->Producer--->Primary consumer-->Secondary consumer (90%) 9% 0.9%
The energy is released as electromagetic energy and each transition in each atom has its own wavelength for the light emitted.
Only about 10% of energy is passed on through each energy level. The rest is used or is wasted as heat.
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10% of the energy is passed on each trophic level. the other 90% goes out through heat.
energy pyramid
The energy is reduced in such a way that only 10% is passed to each level.
As energy flows through the food chain, 90% of the energy is lost at each trophic level and 10% is passed on.
It used by the organisms at each trophic level to keep themselves alive.
1% because if 10% moves on to each level, and 10% was passed on to the first level consumers, 10% divided by 10% equals 0.01 which is equivalent to 1%, so 1% of the original energy used by plants is passed on to second level consumers. :)
Not as much as the producer has because they use some of the energy they have used some energy for things like growth and repair and create more energy by using photosynthesis.
The ten percent law suggests or implies that exactly 90% of the energy is lost in the transfer at each trophic level, and that only 10% is passed on as useable biological energy.