1.9/1.10 tropic levels & the 10% rule

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1st law of thermodynamics

energy is not created/destroyed

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recycling matter is when

a rabbit eats a leaf, energy from the leaf is transferred to the rabbit and stored as fat/muscle

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2nd law of thermodynamics

each time energy transferred, some of it is lost as heat.

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10% rule

only 10% of the energy from 1 level makes it to the next level; the other 90% is used by organisms and lost as heat

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ex of 2nd law

working out, feeling the heat come off, convert that energy from glucose into heat.