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What happens to energy when it is NOT passed from one trophic level to another?
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∙ 11y ago
I dont think the energy can't transfer it will probably be consumed by a scavenger or be chemically borken down by a decomposer.
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∙ 11y ago
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What happens to the energy that is not passed through the trophic levels of an energy pyramid?
It used by the organisms at each trophic level to keep themselves alive.
What happens to energy that is not passed on to the next trophic level?
It's used up by the metabolism or excreted as waste.
How much energy is passed from one trophic level to the next where does the rest go?
10% of the energy is passed on each trophic level. the other 90% goes out through heat.
What is the percent of energy thaT is passed on from one trophic level to the next?
Only about 10% of the energy is transferred from one trophic level to another.
What trophic level is the energy that is not passed on to the next trophic level?
It's used up by the metabolism or excreted as waste.
In an energy pyramid for an ecosystem how much energy is passed from one trophic level to the next?
The Anwser is 10%
What happens to energy that is not available to be passed from one level to another?
It becomes unusable energy, for example heat.
Why does only a small fraction of the energy at one trophic level become available to the next trophic level?
About 10% of the energy in the lower trophic level is passed to the next higher level. The 80% of energy that is left is used by that lower level for life processes or is lost as waste.
Why is it that only part of the energy store in one tropics level is passed on to the next level?
Because every organism, upon consuming a resource, must expend some energy in order to digest/process that resource. Thus not all energy is passed from trophic level to trophic level.
What percentage of energy is lost in each trophic transfer?
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.
How much energy is passed for one energy level to the next?
as little as 10% of the energy at any trophic level is transfer to the next level
How is energy lost between producers and herbivores?
As energy flows through the food chain, 90% of the energy is lost at each trophic level and 10% is passed on.
