Primary and secondary consumers
A trophic level is a step in a food chain of an ecosystem. The organisms in a food chain are classified into their tropic level depending on their feeding behavior; the number of steps an organism is...
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Ecological Pyramids are diagrams used to display Quantitative data and show the relationship between organisms in an ecosystem. They are made up of bars stacked on top of one another. They can be used...
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Before continuing, let's briefly review producers and consumers. Producers are food makers, or autotrophs. They convert radiant energy from the sun into chemical energy by using...
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The classical breakdown of all economic sectors follows: Primary: Involves the retrieval and production of raw materials, such as corn, coal, wood and iron. (A coal miner and a fisherman would be...
The trophic level of an organism helps identify how efficient a consumer it is. The lower a consumer is on the pyramid, the more efficient it is. Consumers who are higher on the energy pyramid are...
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In general, only 10% of the energy at one trophic level is passed on to the next level. Ninety percent of energy is lost to the environment. For instance, 1000 kilograms of producers in level T1 can...
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>> What will you do when a natural disaster, application crash, or malicious attack cripples your business? [pause] Downtime costs businesses billions of dollars every year, and many...
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