How much energy is transferred from a primary consumer to a secondary consumer?
Secondary consumers receive 10% of the energy available at the primary consumer level (1% of the original energy).
How much energy is available to second level consumers?
The secondary consumers tend to be larger and fewer in number. This continues on, all the way up to the top of the food chain. About 50% of the energy (possibly as much as 90%) in food is lost at each trophic level when an organism is eaten, so it is less efficient to be a higher order consumer than a primary consumer.
How much energy does a secondary consumer receives from its food?
To recap: If consumers only get 10% of the energy from what they eat… Primary consumers can get 10% of the energy that producers had. Secondary consumers get 10% of the 10% that the primary consumer had, or a total of 1%.
How much energy is in secondary consumer trophic level?
If 10,000 joules of energy is available to the producer, then only 1000 joules of energy will be available to the primary consumer and only 100 joules of energy will be available to the secondary consumer.
What are the six trophic levels?
Trophic Levels
| Trophic Level | Where It Gets Food |
|---|---|
| 1st Trophic Level: Producer | Makes its own food |
| 2nd Trophic Level: Primary Consumer | Consumes producers |
| 3rd Trophic Level: Secondary Consumer | Consumes primary consumers |
| 4th Trophic Level: Tertiary Consumer | Consumes secondary consumers |
What is the greatest predator that ever lived?
In addition to being the world’s largest fish, megalodon may have been the largest marine predator that has ever lived. (Basilosaurids and pliosaurs may have been just as large.) Megalodon was an apex predator, or top carnivore, in the marine environments it inhabited (see also keystone species).