Question

How much energy Wii be available to man in the food chain given below, if 1,00,000 joules of energy is available from sun to producers. justify your answer.

Plants-Goat-Man

Answer 1

10J of energy will be available to man.
100J of energy for goat.
1000J of energy for Plants.

Answer 2

The energy available to the man would be 1000 joules.
This is because 10 % of energy is transferred to the next stage. As plants being the producer acqire 1,00,000 Joules of energy from the sun. Now some amount of energy would be used up by the plants and 10 % of it will be stored for the next level primary consumers and then the same goes for the and then the man acquire 10% of the energy transferred to the goat.