ECOLOGY
ENERGY FLOW AND PRIMARY PRODUCTION
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Question
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Each level represented within a food chain or web.
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Levels of ecosystems that the world is divided into.
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Different levels of nutrients present within an organism.
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The levels of sunlight an autotroph needs to survive.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The trophic level of an organism is the number of steps it is from the start of the chain. A food web starts at trophic level 1 with primary producers such as plants, can move to herbivores at level 2, carnivores at level 3 or higher, and typically finish with apex predators at level 4 or 5.
Detailed explanation-2: -Organisms in food webs are grouped into categories called trophic levels. Roughly speaking, these levels are divided into producers (first trophic level), consumers, and decomposers (last trophic level).
Detailed explanation-3: -The trophic levels are the positions of organisms on a food chain. They represents a step wise transfer of energy through food, in an ecosystem. The lowest level of a trophic level is occupied by producers. Producers are consumed by primary consumers i.e herbivores and they occupy the second trophic level.
Detailed explanation-4: -The first and lowest level contains the producers, green plants. The plants or their products are consumed by the second-level organisms-the herbivores, or plant eaters. At the third level, primary carnivores, or meat eaters, eat the herbivores; and at the fourth level, secondary carnivores eat the primary carnivores.