Trophic Levels

Where does your food get its food?

Trophic levels

• are steps in nutritive series, or food chain, of an ecosystem. The organisms are classified into levels based on feeding behavior

Trophic levels

• Tertiary consumers
• secondary consumers
• primary consumers
• producers

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Producers get their energy from the sun

Primary consumers
get their energy from plants

Primary consumers get their energy from plants

Secondary consumers get their energy from consuming plants and other animals

Secondary consumers get energy from consuming plants and other animals

Tertiary consumers gain energy from secondary consumers

Tertiary consumers gain energy from secondary consumers

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Trophic level song!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TE6wqG4nb3M

TEKS AND ISTE

• 8th Grade Science
• Teks: Chapter 112.20 Subsection 11(a)

SOURCES

• http://www.ck12.org/biology/Trophic-Levels/lesson/Trophic-Levels-BIO/
• http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/foodchain/
• https://www.britannica.com/science/trophic-level