A path energy takes through a certain ecosystem.
What is the first trophic level?
What are 3 ocean ecosystem producers mentioned in the reading?
The second trophic level are the primary consumers. What is another name for primary consumers?
What is a primary consumer in the kelp ocean ecosystem?
What is another name for the top predator at the top of the food chain. This predator usually has few or no natural predators.
Which trophic level turns organic wastes, such as decaying plants, into inorganic materials, such as nutrient-rich soil? They complete the cycle of life, returning nutrients to the soil or oceans for use by autotrophs. This starts a whole new series of food chains.
Every ecosystem has the most of this trophic level
Toxic chemicals that bioaccumulate
Write a food chain for a ocean food web using organisms mentioned in the reading.