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1- Producers- make their own food (plants, photosynthetic bacteria, etc.)

2- Primary Consumers- eat the producers, small (rodents, bugs, etc.)

3- Secondary Consumers- eat the primary consumers (ex: snakes)

4- Tertiary Consumers- eat the secondary consumers, larger, (ex: owls, humans)

There are not many trophic levels because only 10% of the energy available at one trophic level is passed on to the next level, and so the amount of energy available after many levels is not able to support many organisms.

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