Use your knowledge of the relative energy content among trophic levels to answer the following question: A larger human population could be supported if all humans derived their food from which trophic level? Tertiary consumers Producer Secondary consumers Primary consumers
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Trophic levels represent the position that an organism occupies in a food chain. Producers (such as plants) are at the base of the food chain, followed by primary consumers (herbivores), secondary consumers (carnivores that eat herbivores), and tertiary consumers Show more…
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