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Detritivores can include the scavengers too. Last but not least, the DECOMPOSERS and DETRITIVORE S eat and so recycle dead animals and plants (mushrooms, fungi, insects, bacteria). Because animals eat so many things, the food chain has many overlapping parts, so is really a FOOD WEB. There are fewer secondary consumers than there are primary consumers because each secondary consumer needs to eat a lot of primary consumers to live.īecause there are fewer animals as you move up the food chain, it is really a food pyramid with the big carnivores needing to eat the most and so being the rarest of the animal kingdom. They are the PRIMARY CONSUMERS.Īnimals (harpy eagles, jaguars, anacondas) who eat the primary consumers (herbivores) are the SECONDARY CONSUMERS. Herbivores feed directly on the producers. There are fewer herbivores than there are plants because each herbivore needs a lot of plant matter to live. The animals (toucans, macaws, tapirs, capybaras, agoutis, sloths, monkeys) that mostly eat plants are called the herbivores. They provide the energy for everything else. There are more plants than any other living thing because they are the bottom of the food chain. Plants make (produce) their own food using water, sunlight and carbon dioxide ( photosynthesis). The trophic level is the position that an organism (plant or animal) occupies in a food chain - what it eats, and what eats it.Įnergy flows through an ecosystem as one animal eats another animal or plant. Then read about the different trophic levels of a typical Food Chain (below). To understand the Amazon Rainforest Food Web, first read about the Amazon Rainforest using this link.

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