Question

How are trophic levels related to the flow of energy through an ecosystem?

Answer 1

they both are related because energy flow from one tropic level to next tropic level.

produces capture 1% of energy from sun and use it and then only 10 % of that energy goes to next tropic level and so on...

Answer 2

A pyramid of energy represents how much energy, initially from the sun, is retained or stored in the form of new biomass at each trophic level in an ecosystem. Typically, about 10% of the energy is transferred from one trophic level to the next, thus preventing a large number of trophic levels.