Question

In the following food chain, 100 J of energy is available to the lion. How much energy was available to the producer?

Answer 1

There are three trophic levels the producer, the consumer and the secondary consumer according to 10% of energy transfer in trophic level.

If the lion has 100 J of energy then

let's take 10% of x = 100 J , then x = 1000J

Thus the producer had 1000 J of energy.