The chemical energy of the animal who was eaten is passed on to the animal who ate the other animal.
It's dead
The organism dies and is digested from the organism it was eaten by.
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the food starts to decay
because they get been eaten and eaten
The blackberry is decomposed and its chemical energy is used for energy in the bear.
Basically only 1/10 of the energy from the previous organism is absorbed into the body of the consumer while the other 9/10 is burned up when used for energy by the previous organism. If there is some grass with 100 energy and it gets eaten by a herbivore, the herbivore only receives 10% of the ORIGINAL energy (so the herbivore will have 10 energy.) The animal that will eat the herbivore will only receive 1 energy from the ORIGINAL energy source. The next consumer of the previous organism will only get 0.1 energy from the ORIGINAL energy source and so on.
Prey is the term which means an organism that is eaten by a predator.
10 percent of that energy goes to the human
Biochemical cycles are the main means of energy transfer through an ecosystem. The transfer of energy by eating and being eaten is called the food chain.
Food Chain
Food Chain