Trophic Level and Energy Transfer

These are living organisms that make the sun light’s energy into food. 

• Producers

• Consumer

These animals are usually herbivores because they eat the producers.

• Primary consumer

• secondary consumer

Plants are also called by this term because they make their own food.

• Predator

• Autotrophs

These animals are usually in the 3rd trophic level since they eat the secondary consumers.

• Autotrophs

• Predator

We can classify the omnivores and carnivores to be in this trophic level pyramid. 

• Primary consumer

• secondary consumer

They make up the base of the trophic level pyramid

• Plants

• Animals

They are in the peak of the trophic level.

• Producers

• Apex Predators

They break apart dead organisms into simpler inorganic materials, making nutrients available to primary producers.

• Decomposers

• Producers

It traces the sequence of how an organism obtains its energy.

• Food Chain

• Food Web

The natural interconnection of food chains and a graphical representation of what-eats-what in an ecological community.

• Food Chain

• Food Web