Energy in higher trophic levels is greater than energy at lower trophic levels.

It is false that energy in higher trophic levels is greater than energy at lower trophic levels. In the first trophic level you find the producers, in the second the primary consumers in the level following that the secondary consumers and in the last level the tertiary consumers. And only 10% of energy at one level is available to the next level.

The answer is true. The trophic level of a living being is the position it possesses in an evolved way of life. The word trophic gets from the Greek τροφή (trophē) alluding to sustenance or support. A natural pecking order speaks to a progression of life forms that eat another life form and are, thus, eaten themselves. The quantity of steps a creature is from the begin of the chain is a measure of its trophic level.