AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Primary consumers make up the second trophic level. They are also called herbivores. They eat primary producers-plants or algae-and nothing else. For example, a grasshopper living in the Everglades is a primary consumer.

Detailed explanation-2: -Statement 1: Herbivores are also called autotrophs. Statement 2: Herbivores are the primary consumers.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -All animals depend on plants for their food needs directly or indirectly. Hence, they are called as consumer and also heterotrophs. If they feed on the producers i.e, the plants directly they are called as primary consumers or first order consumers. Primary consumers are herbivores.

Detailed explanation-5: -Herbivores are primary consumers, meaning they eat producers, such as plants and algae.