1answer.
Ask question
Login Signup
Ask question
All categories
  • English
  • Mathematics
  • Social Studies
  • Business
  • History
  • Health
  • Geography
  • Biology
  • Physics
  • Chemistry
  • Computers and Technology
  • Arts
  • World Languages
  • Spanish
  • French
  • German
  • Advanced Placement (AP)
  • SAT
  • Medicine
  • Law
  • Engineering
olga nikolaevna [1]
3 years ago
7

In a food chain 200 kg of wheat is fed on by 18 kg of mice which in turn are eaten by 1kg of hawk. What is the percentage energy

transferred from the first trophic level to the third?
Biology
1 answer:
Nikolay [14]3 years ago
8 0

Answer:

0.1% of energy

Explanation:

Energy flow: From the whole quantity of energy that reaches the earth's surface, autotroph organisms or producers absorb only 0.1 or 1%.

From the input of solar energy begins a unidirectional energy flow through all the organisms in the ecosystem, from autotrophs to heterotrophs, until it is dissipated in the environment.  

At each trophic level occurs an energy transfer to the next, with only 10% being usable in each of them. This assessment is called "The 10% rule". As a general rule, only about 10% of the energy stored as biomass at one trophic level, per unit time, ends up as biomass at the next trophic level, in the same unit of time.

If wheat transferred 10% of the energy to mice, and of that 10% mice transferred 10% of the energy to hawk, then the percentage of energy transferred from the first trophic level to the third equals 0.1%.

10% (1st TL-2nd TL) / 10% (2nd TL - 3rd TL) = 0.1% (1stTL - 3rd TL)

<em>TL = Trophic level           </em>

You might be interested in
Under what conditions are capsules formed? select one:
miss Akunina [59]
It's A, Excess nutrients
3 0
3 years ago
Explain how elevation is shown on a topographic map
Lilit [14]
Contour intervals between contour lines
5 0
3 years ago
Read 2 more answers
Which considerations are used to calculate wind chill factor? select two options
Nostrana [21]
Air pressure would be considered to calculate wind and chill factor. Also air temperature would be considered one to.
4 0
3 years ago
Read 2 more answers
Why are baboons, sparrows, and human beings considered both primary and higher order consumers?
SIZIF [17.4K]
Baboons, sparrows, and human beings are considered both primary and higher order consumers because they all eat plants and meat. 
Primary consumers feed on producers/ plants. Then secondary consumers feed on primary consumers.
 
8 0
2 years ago
Read 2 more answers
Which system is represented by the diagram below?
Luba_88 [7]
Pretty sure that the endocrine system is represented by the diagram

So the answer is endocrine
6 0
2 years ago
Other questions:
  • Explain why the formation of abscission layer causes sugar to accumulate in leaves.
    11·1 answer
  • This fallacy occurs when there is an error in inductive or deductive reasoning.
    5·1 answer
  • A fake or "pretend" experimental treatment is called a
    15·1 answer
  • PLEASE HELP WORTH 20 POINTS WILL MARK BRAINLIEST!!!!!!
    10·1 answer
  • Which characteristic should a good scientific question have?
    9·2 answers
  • What is Speciation?
    6·1 answer
  • Lab work. Which rna nucleotide can pair with the thymine at the beginning of the strand? Drag it into the DNA antisense strand t
    7·2 answers
  • Which of the following defines the Permian-Triassic? a The mass extinction that could occur if an asteroid were to hit the Earth
    14·2 answers
  • Arthropod exoskeletons and mollusc shells both ________.a.are secreted by the mantleb.help retain moisture in terrestrial habita
    11·1 answer
  • * Required
    6·1 answer
Add answer
Login
Not registered? Fast signup
Signup
Login Signup
Ask question!