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In the given food chain, suppose the amount of energy at fourth trophic level is 5 kJ, what will be the energy available at the producer level?

Grass Grasshopper Frog Snake Hawk

In the given food chain fourth trophic level is occupied by snakes. The available energy is 5 kJ at snakes, so at the producer level energy should be 5000 kJ. Grasshopper will get 500 kJ energy as per 10 % law and frog will get 50 kJ and then snake will get 5 kJ energy which is 10 % of 50 kJ.

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