LIFE SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -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. Most carnivores, called predators, hunt and kill other animals, but not all carnivores are predators.

Detailed explanation-2: -The organisms that eat the primary consumers are called secondary consumers. Secondary consumers are generally meat-eaters (carnivores). The organisms that eat the secondary consumers are called tertiary consumers. These are carnivore-eating carnivores, like eagles or big fish.

Detailed explanation-3: -The living things that eat producers and other animals are called consumers. A predator is an animal that eats other animals. The animals that are eaten are called prey. Predators are at the top of a food chain.

Detailed explanation-4: -All animals above the producer are called consumers . The first is the primary consumer and the next is the secondary consumer . Animals that hunt and kill others are called predators and those that are hunted and killed are called prey . The top animal in the feeding relationship is called the apex predator.