Day 45 Trophic Levels

Population Growth Quiz

Trophic Levels

-First level

-Primary Producer

-Second level

-Primary consumers

-Third level

-Secondary consumers

-Fourth level

Tertiary consumers

-It ends with what we call Top Predators

This structure is represented with a food web

Biomagnification is a result of trophic levels

-Each trophic level up becomes magnified by 10

-So each level has more toxic chemicals than the last by 10 times

The higher up on the trophic level the organism is the higher the concentration of toxic chemicals

This works the opposite way when we talk about calories

-Each level we go up on the trophic level we lose 10 times the calories