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The 10% rule in the food chain means

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Iff you start with 100,000 and go from producer to primary consumer to secondary, to tersiary, only 10% is passed on so the primary only gets 10,000

secondary only gets 1,000 nd tersiary only gets 100

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The 10% rule means that when energy is passed in an ecosystem from one trophies level to the next, only 10% of the energy will be passed on.
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