SCIENCE
ECOLOGY
Question
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Autotroph
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Consumer
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Herbivore
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Prey
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Detailed explanation-1: -Heterotrophs are known as consumers because they consume producers or other consumers. Dogs, birds, fish, and humans are all examples of heterotrophs. Heterotrophs occupy the second and third levels in a food chain, a sequence of organisms that provide energy and nutrients for other organisms.
Detailed explanation-2: -Carnivores eat other consumers. This means they eat other animals. Animals that eat both producers and consumers are called omnivores.
Detailed explanation-3: -Carnivores are living things that only eat meat. Animals like owls, tigers, sharks and cougars are carnivores. You would not catch a plant in these animals’ mouths. Then, we have the omnivores.
Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -Organisms which cannot produce their own food, need to eat other organisms as food. Organisms that eat food made by other organism are known as: More items