When a consumer eats a producer, 10 percent of the producer’s energy is passed on to the consumer trophic level. What happens to the other 90 percent?(1 point)

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It is consumed and used by the consumer.
It is consumed and used by the consumer.

It is added back to the soil by decomposers.
It is added back to the soil by decomposers.

It is used by the producer to pass on to the next trophic level.
It is used by the producer to pass on to the next trophic level.

It is used for cell processes or released as heat.

Answer 1

The correct response is:

It is used for cell processes or released as heat.

In energy transfer between trophic levels, only about 10% of the energy is typically passed on to the next level, while the remaining 90% is lost primarily through metabolic processes and as heat.