Question 1: Considering the Law of Conservation of Energy, why does only about 10% of the energy is transferred to the next trophic level?
Question 2: What happens to the rest of the energy?
Answer:The amount of energy at each trophic level decreases as it moves through an ecosystem. As little as 10 percent of the energy at any trophic level is transferred to the next level; the rest is lost largely through metabolic processes as heat.
