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Only about 10 percent of the energy in an organism is passed on to the next level of a food chain. Look at this food chain: grass → rabbit → hawk What percentage of the energy stored by the grass is passed on to the hawk?

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Quick answer 1%.
The rabbit gets 10%. When the rabbit is caught he passes on 10% of what he got from the grass. !0% of 10% is 1 %
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