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Why do food chains not have an infinite number of links
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Why do food chains not have an infinite number of links

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Because life keeps going
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Food chains don’t have infinite links, because only about 10% of energy is passed upwards in trophic levels. So a mouse could eat 10 grasshoppers, but a hawk would need to eat 100 mouses to get the same energy
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