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it would be 20 calories = 10%
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5 would be passed on to the hawk.
5
The hawk would receive about 5 of the plant based calories.
Every step of energy transformation have loss. Progress through the energy chain, the amount of energy transferred would unavoidably degraded. So as the chain progress it get narrower to a pyramid shape.
In an ecosystem energy passes from one feeding level to another. Producers are plants that occupy the first level in the ecosystem. They are the only organisms that can convert the sun's energy into chemical energy through photosynthesis. When plants are consumed, energy is passed on the herbivores and then carnivores. Without producers in the food chain there would be no energy produced for other consumers of the food chain, which is vital to daily life.
In an ecosystem energy passes from one feeding level to another. Producers are plants that occupy the first level in the ecosystem. They are the only organisms that can convert the sun's energy into chemical energy through photosynthesis. When plants are consumed, energy is passed on the herbivores and then carnivores. Without producers in the food chain there would be no energy produced for other consumers of the food chain, which is vital to daily life.
You would get more energy from eating the corn directly. In general, only about 10% of the energy gets passed up the food chain which means that you only get 10% of the energy that was originally contained in the corn by eating the cow that ate the corn.
You would get more energy from eating the corn directly. In general, only about 10% of the energy gets passed up the food chain which means that you only get 10% of the energy that was originally contained in the corn by eating the cow that ate the corn.
The energy decreases as you move step to step in a chain .........................................The first organism (primary consumer) that eats the producer (green plants) will have the most number of energy................................while the last organism in the chain (top predator) will have the least number of energy in the chain.