Download as docx, pdf, or txt
Download as docx, pdf, or txt
You are on page 1of 1

Ten Percent Law Numericals

1. In a food chain, 10,000 joules of energy is available to the producer. How much energy
will be available to the secondary consumer to transfer it to the tertiary consumer? [All
India ]
2. Consider the following food chain which occurs in a forest: Grass -> Deer -> Lion
If 10000 J of solar energy is available to the grass, how much energy would be available
to the deer to transfer it to the lion? [Foreign

3. Consider the following food chain

Plants----->Mice------->Snake------->Eagle

If Energy incorporated in plants = 30,000 J , how much energy would be available to the
Snake to transfer it to the Eagle.

4. 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

5. If 5 joules of energy is available at producer level (plants), then how much energy will be
transferred to the lion in the following food chain ?

Plants —> Goat —> Lion

6. Calculate the amount of energy that will be available to big fish in the following food chain, if
10,000 J of energy is available to small algae from the sun :
Small algae —-> Zooplankton —-> Fish —-> Big fish

7. (a)Name and state the law given by Lindeman which tells us how much energy entering a
particular trophic level of organisms is available for trasnsfer to the next higher trophic level.
(b) How much energy will be available to hawks in the food chain comprising hawk, snake,
paddy and mice, if 1,00000 J of energy is available to paddy from the sun ?

You might also like