How much energy will be available to hawks in the food chain comprising hawk, snake, paddy and mice, if 10,000 J of energy is available to paddy from the sun?

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Food chain will be = Paddy—Mice—Snake—Hawk

10,000J of energy is available to paddy from sun, out of which only 1% is absorbed, 1% of 10,000J is 100J. 100J energy is absorbed by Paddy. 10% of this 100J is transferred to mice, 10% of 100J is 10J; mice receives 10J energy. 10% of 10J i.e. 1% reaches the next trophic level i.e. snake. Snake will transfer 10% of 1J to hawks; 10% of 1J is 0.1J.
Thus, 0.1J of energy will be available to hawks in the given food chain.