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Determine if the following statement is true or false and why. “Primary and Secondary Consumers lose about 30% of the energy they absorb from food as heat.” A. False, it should read “Only Secondary Consumers lose about 30% of the energy they absorb from food as heat.” B. False, it should read “Primary and Secondary Consumers lose about 5% of the energy they absorb from food as heat.” C. True D. False, it should read “Primary Consumers lose about 5% of the energy they absorb from food as heat, while Secondary Consumers lose 30% as heat.”

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True. The correct option is C.

Energy transfer in the ecosystem

Energy is transferred from lower to higher trophic levels of the food chain in any ecosystem.

In other words, energy is transferred when primary consumers feed on producers, when secondary consumers feed on primary consumers, and so on.

However, when energy is transferred through feeding from lower to higher trophic levels, a certain percentage of the energy is lost to the surroundings as heat.

In actual fact, scientists believe that about 90% (and not 30%) of the energy is lost as heat to the surrounding. Only about 10% of the energy is converted to useful energy.

More on energy transfer in the ecosystem can be found here: https://brainly.com/question/15896675

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