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It states that energy, when passing from prey to predator, is only conserved at about 10%. for example, when deer eat the grass, only 10% of the energy that the grass received from the sun is passed onto the deer.
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 7y agoEvery time something is eaten, only ten percent of the energy make it to the consumer. For example, a plant uses photosynthesis and would be able to use 10% of the energy. Then a cow eats the plant and gets 10% of the plants energy, which is 1% of the original suns energy. Next a person eats the cow and only gets .1% of the original energy from the sun.
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∙ 11y agoOnly 10% of the energy stored at one trophic level istransferredto the next.
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∙ 11y agoits a rule in sequence of the living organisms in a certain species
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∙ 11y agoAs you move up the food chain the energy level goes down. When an organism eats another organism it loses 10% of the energy that was in the previous organism..
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∙ 11y agoOnly 10% of energy is stored when an organism from one level of the Pyramid of Energy is eaten by an organism from one level above. The rest of the energy is used or lost.
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What the rule of ten?
it is poo
When the solar system was created planets were formed from the ten percent of matter left over from a nebula?
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Branchs of ecology?
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Ecology is the study of that
What happens to the other 90 percent in the 10 percent rule?
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What is the ten percent rule of energy flow?
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What is the answer for 10 percent of 55?
Ten percent of 55 is 5.5.
What is the percent of ten and fifty?
Ten is twenty percent of fifty.
What is ten percent of 14.64?
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What is ten percent of 596.00?
Ten percent of 596.00 is 59.6
What is ten percent of 75000?
Ten percent of 75.000 is 7.500.
What is ten percent of 57?
5.7 I think (you do 57/100=0.57 to get one percent then times by ten to get ten percent.)
What is ten percent of thirty dollars?
Ten percent of thirty is three.
What is the ten percent of 860?
ten percent of 860 is 86 86
Is 60 percent of ten is what number?
60 percent of ten is 6
Lincoln's ten percent plan of reconstruction?
Because president Lincoln gave ten percent to the south. Of course the ten percent was money
