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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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Answer: Answer: 1% Step-by-step explanation: grass = 100%; rabbit = 100% x 0.10 = 10%; hawk = 10% x 0.10 = 1% The hawk would receive 1 percent of the energy that was stored by the grass

Explanation: looked it up lol

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the rabbit gets 10% from the grass
the hawk gets 10% of that 10%, i.e. 1% of the original energy
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