AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The third trophic level is occupied by carnivores and omnivores. A carnivore also known as secondary consumer is an organism that consumes predominantly meat or animal flesh. Carnivores are also known as predators.

Detailed explanation-2: -one of three positions on the food chain: autotrophs (first), herbivores (second), and carnivores and omnivores (third).

Detailed explanation-3: -Tertiary consumers, which are sometimes also known as apex predators, are hypercarnivorous or omnivorous animals usually at the top of food chains, capable of feeding on both secondary consumers and primary consumers.

Detailed explanation-4: -All big cats are examples of tertiary consumers. For example, lions, tigers, pumas, jaguars, etc. Furthermore, they are also apex predators, which imply that in their natural environment there are no other organisms that prey on them.

Detailed explanation-5: -Tertiary consumers are those that eats the secondary consumers (large predators). For example, owls that eat snakes.