What does a secondary consumer eat?

What does a secondary consumer eat?

Secondary consumers eat primary consumers. Many secondary consumers also eat plants, which makes them omnivores (meat and plant eaters).

What secondary consumer does a hawk eat?

Hawks are omnivores, and they have very opportunistic eating habits. Red-tailed hawks mainly feed on small mammals, including shrews, mice, squirrels and moles, but they aren’t opposed to eating pets, including cats and small dogs.

Is the hawk a tertiary consumer?

Hawks are carnivores that eat toads. Therefore they are one trophic level higher than toads. They are considered tertiary consumers.

Can a single organism can fill the role of a secondary and tertiary consumer?

Yes, organisms can fill more than one trophic level. For example, a lion can be both a secondary and a tertiary consumer.

Which organism is both a secondary and tertiary consumer?

Which organisms are both secondary and tertiary consumers in this food web? -Chemosynthetic bacteria and amphipods. -Zooplankton and mussels. -Ratfish and octopuses. -Galatheid crabs and zoarcid fish.

What is a first order consumer in a food web?

First-level consumers, also known as primary consumers, eat producers such as plants, algae and bacteria. Herbivores, the first-level consumers, occupy the second trophic level. First-level consumers do not eat other consumers, only plants or other producers.

Which consumer gets the most energy?

producers

Which consumer receives the greatest energy?

Food Chains and Energy Flow

A	B
10%	the amount of energy passed on at each level in a food chain/energy pyramid
Which group of living things receives the greatest amount of energy from the sun?	green plants (producers/autotrophs)
Which group of consumers receives the most energy in a food chain?	plant eaters (herbivores)