Oceanic+Feeding+Relationships

**Tropic Levels-chemical energy stored in the mass of the ocean's algae is transferred to the animal community mostly through feeding.**

 * ==**ZooPlanktons are herbivores(herba=grass, vora= eat). Herbivores are eaten by carnivores(carni=meat,vora=eat)**==

**Transfer Efficiency- The transfer of energy betweem tropic level is very efficient.**
=//** Biomass transfer efficiency **//= = =
 * =**2% of the light energy absorbed by algae is ultimate changed into food and made available to herbivores.**=
 * =Generally each trophic level relates to the one below it by absorbing some of the energy it consumes and in this way can be regarded as resting on or supported by the next lower tropic level.=

//**The Tropic Level of an Organism is the position it occupies on te Food Chain.**//

 * ==**Level 1: Plants and Algae make their own food and are called primary producers.**==
 * ==**Level 2: Herbivores eat plants and are called primary consumers.**==
 * ==**Level 3: Carnivores which eat herbivore are called secondary consumers.**==
 * ==**Level 4: Carnivores eating carnivores are called tertiary consumers**==
 * ==**Level 5: Apex Predator which have no predators.**==

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**Interesting Facts or Discoveries:**
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 * =Animals and People that eat both animals and plants are called omnivores.=
 * =The efficiency with which energy or biomass is transferred from one trophic level to the next is called the ecological efficiency.Consumers at each level convert on average only about 10 percent of the chemical energy in their food to their own organic tissue. For this reason, food chains rarely extend for more than 5 or 6 levels. At the lowest trophic level (the bottom of the food chain), plants convert about one percent of the sunlight they receive into chemical energy. It follows from this that the total energy originally present in the incident sunlight that is finally embodied in a tertiary consumer is about 0.001 % ^4 power.=
 * =An energy prymaid illustrates how much energy is needed as it flows upwards to support the next trophic level=