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Trophic Level
This process is known as energy loss or energy transfer inefficiency in trophic levels. As energy moves up the food chain, it is lost through heat, metabolic processes, and other inefficiencies. This results in only a small portion of energy being passed from one trophic level to the next.
Producers are plants, and are found on the first trophic level. Consumers are normally animals, and they comsume the plants or other animals that have eaten the plant before them. These consumers are found on the second trophic level and upwards, depending on how the consume the energy that originated from the plant.
1. Primary Producers (e.g. plants, algae)2. Herbivores, also called Primary Consumers3. Carnivores and Omnivores (which eat herbivores), also called Secondary Consumers4. Carnivores (which eat other carnivores), also called Tertiary Consumers5. Apex Predators (carnivores with no predators)6. Detritivores (e.g. bacteria, fungi), also called Decomposers*No. 6 is not usually included in the food chain, however they consume any dead organisms and restart the chain.Primary Producers are known as Autotrophs as they can produce their own food, but from Stages 2 to 6 the organisms are known as Heterotrophs as they rely on other organisms (the trophic level below them) for nutrients.
The third level of consumer is called the tertiary consumer.
The term "pyramid of numbers" is derived from the visual representation of the relationship between different trophic levels in an ecosystem. In this graphical representation, the number of organisms at each trophic level is depicted as a pyramid, with the primary producers forming the base and the top predators at the apex. This structure resembles a pyramid due to the decreasing number of organisms at each successive trophic level, reflecting the energy transfer and biomass distribution within the ecosystem.
The third book is called: Chains of Reaction
The name for this compound is 3-methylpentane. It consists of a chain of five carbon atoms with a methyl group attached to the third carbon atom.
The first two organisms in a food chain are usually the primary producers such as the plants and the herbivores at the second level.
A third-level consumer is an animal which eats any animal in the second level category, the only animal that would eat the animal would be a fourth level consumer which is not normally found in a ecosystem. You place a certain level consumer on top of the animal it eats. like a mouse would be a first level consumer, since it eats grass which is a producer, then, the owl whcih eats the mouse would be a second level consumer since it eats that first level consumer, rat.
All plants are producers. Plants are by definition producers, they take the suns energy and store it in chemical bonds. We eat plants and get that energy and thus survive.
Hi, I would like to know the real/original name of the 'chain hoist/pulley' I was taught 50 years ago when of doing O levels physics. I guess it was the inventor's name. Obviously we can still buy them but they only call them a chain hoist or pulley. thks john 23.11.10