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Why is energy lost in a food chain? *​

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not all energy is passed from one level of a food chain to the next. Around 90% of energy is lost from heat during respiration, in materials that the consumer doesn't digest, or through movement. Through the undigested materials where the energy is stored It's transferred to decomposers.
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Because as metabolic heat when the organisms from one trophic level are consumed by organisms from the next level

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