SCIENCE
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
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Question
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both consumers
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consumer and decomposer
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producer and consumer
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -A food chain is a series of plants/animals which are interrelated in the form of organism being eaten as food by the other. Grass is a producer in a food chain. Mouse is a primary consumer in a food chain which eats plants. Snake is a secondary consumer which eats mouse.
Detailed explanation-2: -Snakes and eagles are generally secondary or tertiary consumers that eat other animals like frog, etc. Hence, these are not primary consumers as these are not herbivores.
Detailed explanation-3: -The mouse and the hawk are at the third and fourth levels of the food chain example. Like the grasshopper, they are consumers. However, the mouse and the hawk are consumers called carnivores because they eat other animals.
Detailed explanation-4: -Living things that have to hunt, gather and eat their food are called consumers. Consumers have to eat to gain energy or they will die. There are four types of consumers: omnivores, carnivores, herbivores and decomposers.