Trophic Levels
Instructions
Go on a nature walk (at your site and surrounding areas). As you walk take photos of representative organisms from each of the trophic levels.
- How many different kinds of producers did you find?
- How many different kinds of First order consumers did you find?
- How many different kinds of Second order consumers did you find?
- How many different kinds of Third order consumers did you find?
- Looking over your examples from the different trophic levels, do you notice any patterns?
- What patterns do you recognize?
- Why do you think this/these patterns exist in nature?
- Do you think you might find different patterns (or different distributions of organisms) in a suburban neighborhood, than in a forest?