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Explain how energy flows through a food chain

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Only about ten percent of the energy at one trophic level is passed on to organisms at the next trophic level.

The remainder of the energy is used in life processes or lost as heat.

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primary producers pump energy into an ecosystem from an environmental source and then the energy is passed from one organism to another
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