Trophic Level

What is a Trophic Level? Explained in an easy to understand way:

What is a Trophic Level? - Easy to Understand

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Imagine you're in a multi-storey shopping mall, and you need to figure out which floor to go to for different types of stores. Just like each floor of the mall has specific types of shops and services, each trophic level in a food chain or food web has specific types of organisms, like producers or consumers. The connection here is that just as each floor in a mall supports a different shopping need, each trophic level supports a different role in the ecosystem, with energy being transferred from one level to the next, much like how money and products move through the mall.

Trophic Level Definition

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Trophic Level Definition

Trophic Level: A step in the food chain or food web. Trophic level. A trophic level is the position an organism occupies in a food chain, like primary producers or top predators.