{"id":24060,"date":"2017-09-21T20:35:37","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T20:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=24060"},"modified":"2017-09-21T20:35:37","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T20:35:37","slug":"biology-what-is-a-trophic-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/biology-what-is-a-trophic-level\/","title":{"rendered":"Biology: what is a trophic level?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Tutoring biology, you come across the concept of trophic level. The tutor defines it.<\/h1>\n<p>In an ecosystem, a tropic level can be thought of as a level of energy or of consumption.<\/p>\n<p>The organisms at trophic level 1 are called primary producers. By photosynthesis, they harvest energy from the sun to produce carbohydrates. Grass is a primary producer; in the ocean, phytoplankton is an example.<\/p>\n<p>At trophic level 2 are the plant-eaters.<\/p>\n<p>At trophic level 3 are predators (carnivores).<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p>Mader, Sylvia S. <i>Inquiry into Life,<\/i> 9th ed. Toronto: McGraw-Hill, 2000.<\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tutoring biology, you come across the concept of trophic level. The tutor defines it. In an ecosystem, a tropic level can be thought of as a level of energy or of consumption. The organisms at trophic level 1 are called &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/biology-what-is-a-trophic-level\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Biology: what is a trophic level?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219],"tags":[2500],"class_list":["post-24060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology","tag-what-is-trophic-level"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24060"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24091,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24060\/revisions\/24091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}