NEET BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -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.

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: -Tertiary consumers eat the secondary consumers. There may be more levels of consumers before a chain finally reaches its top predator. Top predators, also called apex predators, eat other consumers. Consumers can be carnivores (animals that eat other animals) or omnivores (animals that eat both plants and animals).

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -Rabbits, consuming grass are an example of primary consumers; snakes, consuming rabbits are an example of secondary consumers while owls, consuming snakes are an example of tertiary consumers.