FORESTRY
ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENT
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Question
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Consumers
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Producers
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Herbivores
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Predators
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Detailed explanation-1: -The base of the pyramid is composed of species called autotrophs, the primary producers of the ecosystem.
Detailed explanation-2: -At the pyramid base are the producers, autotrophic organisms that make their own food from inorganic substances. All of the other organisms in the energy pyramid are consumers. These are heterotrophs, meaning that they get food energy by consuming other organisms.
Detailed explanation-3: -The top layer of the energy pyramid contains apex predators. These are mostly carnivorous animals that have no natural predators. The pyramid shape is used to represent the flow of energy because of the way that energy is used up and lost throughout the system. The primary producers take in energy from the sun.
Detailed explanation-4: -The trophic level of an organism is the position it occupies in a food web. A food chain is a succession of organisms that eat other organisms and may, in turn, be eaten themselves.