AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The primary consumers are herbivores (vegetarians). The organisms that eat the primary consumers are meat eaters (carnivores) and are called the secondary consumers. The secondary consumers tend to be larger and fewer in number. This continues on, all the way up to the top of the food chain.

Detailed explanation-2: -Next are the secondary consumers, which eat primary consumers. Secondary consumers are mostly carnivores, from the Latin words meaning “meat eater.” In the Everglades, egrets and alligators are carnivores. They eat only other animals.

Detailed explanation-3: -Answer and Explanation: Secondary consumers are animals that eat primary consumers. For example, a bird is a secondary consumer that eats a grasshopper, which is a primary consumer. Some secondary consumers may also eat plants as well as animals.

Detailed explanation-4: -A secondary consumer is an organism that eats primary consumers. Primary consumers eat primary producers. Primary producers are autotrophs, organisms that make their own food. On an energy pyramid, primary producers are at the very bottom, then primary consumers, then secondary above them.

Detailed explanation-5: -Primary Consumer-Animals that consume only plant matter. They are herbivores-eg rabbits, caterpillars, cows, sheep, and deer. Secondary Consumer-Animals that eat primary consumers (herbivores). Tertiary Consumer-Animals that eat secondary consumers ie carnivores that feed on other carnivores.