Trophic levels

What term is used for the stages in a food chain?

• Trophic steps

• Feeding levels

• Trophic levels

What is the name used to refer to the trophic level highlighted in the diagram above?

• Primary consumer 

• Apex predator

• Secondary consumer 

• Producers 

What is the name used to refer to the trophic level highlighted in the diagram above?

• Producers 

• Secondary consumer 

• Primary consumer 

• Apex predator

What is the name used to refer to the trophic level highlighted in the diagram above?

• Primary consumer 

• Apex predator

• Secondary consumer 

• Producers 

Which trophic level contains secondary consumers?

• Trophic level 1

• Trophic level 2

• Trophic level 3

• Trophic level 4

What do the arrows in a food chain show?

• How many organisms are at each trophic level

• The transfer of energy & biomass

• Which organisms are dependent on which 

What is an omnivore?

• An organism which eats only animals

• An organism which eats only plants 

• An organism which eats both plants and animals

What is a herbivore?

• An organism which eats only plants 

• An organism which eats both plants and animals

• An organism which eats only animals

What is a carnivore?

• An organism which eats both plants and animals

• An organism which eats only animals

• An organism which eats only plants 

What must be true of a primary consumer?

• It eats meat and plants

• It eats secondary consumers

• It eats plants or algae