Trophic levels

Question 1

What are trophic levels?

Answer 1

• The different levels of a food chain

Question 2

How type of organisms are each trophic levels?

Answer 2

• Trophic level 1: producer
• Trophic level 2: primary consumer
• Trophic level 3: secondary consumer
• Trophic level 4: tertiary consumer

Question 3

Why do we usually not get past trophic level 5?

Answer 3

• Most energy transferred between trophic levels is lost
• After trophic level 4, there isn’t enough enregy being passed on to sustain life

Question 4

What do we call organisms at the top of the food chain?

Answer 4

• Apex predators

Question 5

Why are decomposers important?

Answer 5

• They break down dead organic matter and return the nutrients back into the environment so they can be used again