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Every time energy is transferred between organisms in a food web, some of the energy is lost as heat.


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True or false

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
True.

When energy moves between trophic levels much is lost as heat through metabolism and maintenance (and as undigested waste), so only a fraction (roughly ~10% on average) is passed on to the next level.