Question

. If 100 J energy is available at the producer level in a food chain then the energy available to the secondary consumer will be:

(a) 10 J

(b) 0.1 J

(c) 1 J

(d) 0.01 J
Explain it briefly ​

Answer 1

Energy which will reach secondary consumer will be - (c) 1 J

Food chain has trophic levels. These levels denotes type of organisms in a food chain. Transfer of energy through this food chain occurs, with only 10% passage of energy. This means 90% of energy is wasted at each trophic level. The sequence of trophic level is -

Producer, primary consumer, secondary consumer, tertiary consumer.

Question asks energy transferred from producer to secondary consumer level, thus -

Producer to primary consumer -

100*10/100

Thus, 10 J of energy, out of 100 J reaches primary consumer.

Primary consumer to secondary consumer energy transferred is - 10*10/100

Thus, only 1 J of energy will reach secondary consumer.

Answer 2

Answer:

1 joule is the answer

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