Question

Consider the following food chains
a. Plants Arrow mice Arrow snake Arrow hawks b. plants arrow mice arrow hawks if energy available at the producer level in both the food chain is hundred June In which case Hawk get more energy as food and by what factor justify your answer

Answer 1

Answer:

actually., hawk will get energy in b) case more .

because acc. to 10% law , the energy which is tranfering level to level is only 10%

ex. in

a) plant have 100 joule the mice will get 10 joule and then snake will get 1 joule and then.hawk will get 0.1 joule.

but in case b) plant have 100 joule , the mice will get 10 joule and then hawk will get 1 joule.

this is due to short food chain or less consumers.

so in b) hawk will consume more energy.

Explanation:

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