A leopard seal ate a squid. The squid contained 90,000 Calories of energy. the leopard seal would obtain - 9000 calories.
The ten percent law or 10% rule is the law in which if you go higher in trophic levels from lower trophic level, only 10% of energy is passed from lower to higher trophic level.
- The rest 90% is either burned for energy, undigested, excreted, or lost as heat.
- In this case, squid has 90000 calories stored, and when leopard seal eats it energy move from the lower trophic level to higher trophic level.
- According to the law, leopard seal eating 90000 calories of squid, only 9000 calories obtain to the seal as body mass.
- The other 90% or 81000 calories were spent by the seal in the process of locating, catching, eating, and digesting the squid.
Thus, the correct answer is - 9000 calories.
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