Thursday, May 12, 2011

4.4 Trophic Levels


  • The word "Trophic" means to "feed". The carrot plant is in term of photosynthesis, the carrotfly eating the carrot plant which is the term of herbivore. The flycatcher eat the carrotfly which is the term of carnivre and the carnivore eat the carnivore is a term of the top carnivore.
  • Carrot plant is call the producer is turning light energy to chemical energy. The carrotfly eating the carrot plant is a primary consumer takes in the chemical energy of the plant and change to the chemical energy of the fly.
  • Flycatcher eats the primary consumer which make them the secondary consumers and change chemical energy from one form to another.
  • Tertiary consumer eat the secondary consumer and it's chemica energy to chemical energy.
  • When they all die and it's decomposers for 2 examples:
  1. Fungi
  2. Bacteria

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