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Directions Type your answers in the boxes provided Use numerals not words The ecological pyramid below shows the organisms found in each trophic level of a simplified ecosystem eagles weasels rabbits green plants The amount of energy at each trophic level in an ecosystem decreases as it moves through the ecosystem Typically only about 10 percent of the energy at one trophic level is transferred to the next level The remaining energy is lost through metabolic processe as heat Suppose that in the ecosystem modeled above 150 000 kcal kilocalories of energy are contained within green plants Assuming th the amount of energy transferred from one trophic level to the next is exactly 10 percent determine the following amounts of energy the ecosystem kcal of energy will be transferred from green plants to rabbits kcal of energy will be transferred from rabbits to weasels kcal of energy will be transferred from weasels to eagles