Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Task card eight - Ecosystem Earth






What is the difference between first, second and third order consumers?The first order consumer be insects, small animals like fish and bugs so the second order consumer would be something that eat or live off the first order consumer so that would be birds, small or medium size fish, smalls mammals (kangaroo). The third order consumer’s food is mainly base on meat so it would be lion, tiger, humans, shark.






What is a trophic level?
A tropic level is different categorizer’s name in a pyramid where it illustrates the first, second and third order consumer and each of them is a different tropic level.


By Ta Thach and David Dikih.

4 comments:

adam (scholzy) said...
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adam (scholzy) said...

This diagram gives me a good understanding of what animals go in each catorgorie but I'm no sure if it is trophic level or tropic level?

Daniel said...

u draw the human = =

alek kanga said...

great work fellas, nice info. We can all learn something from it.