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What is the percent of energy thaT is passed on from one trophic level to the next?
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∙ 11y ago
Only about 10% of the energy is transferred from one trophic level to another.
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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.
What happens to the 90 percent of energy that does not transfer to the next trophic level in a food chain?
it gets lost through each trophic level while only the other 10% moves on..
Why are there fewer organisms in the higher trophic levels than the lower trophic levels?
the temperature is higher and in generally the conditions of life is much easier... There are also many atmospheric and oceanic phenomena participating in making the environment much more friendly than any other geographic level. and of course, cause they're near me :)
Energy that is lost at each trophic level of an ecosystem is replenished by what?
10% of the energy is transfered from one trophic level to the next because the rest is used by the organism to grow and develop. Unless it is a plant then the plant uses 100% or close to 100% of the suns energy to grow.
Why is so little of the energy from one trophic level transferred up to the next trophic level?
All of the energy that enters an organism is not available to the next trophic level. This is because while the organism has the energy they use most of the energy up before the next level eats that level.
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 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.
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.
What percent of the energy available within on trophic level is transferred to organisms at the next trophic level when they are eaten?
1%
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.
Is about 50 percent of the energy available within one trophic level transferred to the next trophic level?
No. About TEN (10) percent of the energy available within one trophic level is transferred to the next trophic level the rest of it is used to grow and develop, except in plants because plants use 100% or close to 100% of the sun's energy to grow and develop.
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.
Approximately what percentage of organic energy gets transferred from organisms on one trophic level to the next trophic level?
ten percent
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.
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
In an energy pyramid for an ecosystem how much energy is passed from one trophic level to the next?
The Anwser is 10%
10 percent law of energy transfer?
10 % energy is utilized at each trophic level
