Question

Describe in a short paragraph how the following terms work together in an ecosystem and which of the terms can be used to include all of the rest of the terms. * Trophic level, Food web, Food chain, Consumer, Producer.

Answer 1

Trophic level: the feeding level of an organism in a food web or chain. Food web: a diagram showing a series of interconnected food chains and the flow of energy through an ecosystem. Food chain: a diagram showing the flow of energy from one trophic level to the next. E.g. Consumer or decomposed Consumer: an organism which feeds on other organisms to obtain its nutritional requirements (part of a food web/chain). Producer: an organism capable of trapping the suns energy and converting it to sugar in the process of photosynthesis. Therefore the term food web is the term used to include all of the above.
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