4.4 Trophic Levels

TROPIC IS TO FEED

trophic levels are levels of which animals in an ecosystem feed in, including producers, primary consumers, secondary consumers, tertiary consumers and decomposers

CARROT PLANT :            CARROT FLY                      FLY CATCHER                SPARROW
is a producer, transfer's        primary consumer,                 carnivore, secondary             top carnivore,
light energy into      -----> takes in chemical energy -----> consumer, takes in the -----> tertiary consumer
 chemical energy                of the plant into chemical       chemical energy of the         the sparrow turns the
through photosynthesis.      energy of the fly.                   carrot fly and turns it into    chemical energy of the
                                                                                          the chemical energy of the   flycatcher into the
                                                                                          fly catcher.                         chemical energy of the
                                                                                                                                     sparrow

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DEATH all living organisms die at one point, at this point they get broken down by a group of organisms called decomposers, examples of decomposers are funghi and bacteria, decomposers break down dead animals into nitrates and phosphates.