Question

In the food chain, how much energy is transferred from the Sun to a producer?



1%

10%

90%

100%

Answer 1

10

Answer 2

10

Answer 3

please be more specific. photosynthesis efficiency is way below 1%.

to the other two: source, please.

Answer 4

no, I wanna know whee the numbers come from. anyone can do a chart like this in paint.

Answer 5

it's most likely a rough guess, how is anyone supposed to know for sure. Either way it doesn't matter really because the 10% was correct on my assignment.

Answer 6

so thank you yet again, endie.

Answer 7

welcome

Answer 8

ah now I read on wikipedia that the 10% number is probably right - being the maximum thoretical efficiency. you can count the energy that's in the absorbed photons and the amount of energy put into chemical bonds, and you come to 10%.