In the given food chain, if the lion receives 10 Joules of energy by eating a fox, what will be the amount of energy available in the plants?
Plant → Goat → Fox → Lion
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Food chain: Plant → Goat → Fox → Lion
• The lion receives 10 J from the fox.
• According to the 
law, only 
energy is transferred from one trophic level to the next.
Energy in fox
If the lion gets 10 J, then the fox must have had:
Energy in goat
If the fox had 100 J, then the goat must have had:
Energy in plant
If the goat had 1000 J, then the plants must have had:
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