Question

Study carefully the food chain given below:
Food chain: wheat → rat → snake → hawk
To which of the two consumers, snake or hawk, will more energy (per cent) be available and why?

Answer 1

Wheat →rat →snake →hawk
In the above food chain, more energy will be available to snake than hawk. Energy transfer from one trophic level to another follows 10% law of energy transfer.
According to this law, only 10% of the energy stored at a particular trophic level is transferred to the next higher trophic level.