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i think hawks are tertiary because they eat secondary consumers
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What are some secondary prairie consumers?
prairie dogs, snakes, hawks, and elk are all secondary consumers.
Is a hawk a primary or secondary or tertiary consumer?
Hawks do not usually eat plant material, so they are not primary consumers. They do eat animals that are primary consumers (e.g., rabbits, birds), so they can be considered secondary consumers. Some of the animals hawks eat also eat other animals (mice, bats or birds that eat insects, for example), so they can also be considered tertiary consumers.
Why are secondary consumers called secondary consumers?
Because, animals that eat other animals
What does 'secondary consumers' mean?
Usually a secondary consumer is a carnivore. They prey on primary consumers. Primary consumers eat vegetation.
Examples of secondary consumers?
Secondary consumers eat herbivores, which are primary consumers. An example of this would be a lion that eats a zebra. The zebra is a herbivore and so the lion is a secondary consumer. Almost all carnivores are secondary consumers.
What are some secondary prairie consumers?
prairie dogs, snakes, hawks, and elk are all secondary consumers.
In a food web consisting of grass grasshoppers sparr ows and hawks the sparrows are?
secondary consumers.
Is a hawk a primary or secondary or tertiary consumer?
Hawks do not usually eat plant material, so they are not primary consumers. They do eat animals that are primary consumers (e.g., rabbits, birds), so they can be considered secondary consumers. Some of the animals hawks eat also eat other animals (mice, bats or birds that eat insects, for example), so they can also be considered tertiary consumers.
Are hawks primary or secondary consumer?
A primary consumer is an animal that eats plant material for food hawks do not eat grass leaves etc so they are secondaryconsumers - they eat the primary consumers
What is true about secondary consumers in an ecosystem?
A secondary consumer is a predator that eats the primary consumer in an ecosystem. Flow of energy in an ecosystem= primary producer>primary consumer>secondary consumer>teriary consumer
A sentence for secondary consumers?
Secondary consumers are herbivores that feed on primary consumers.
What are the consumers of rabbits?
HAWKS
Is a hawk or or an?
Hawks are consumers.
What are consumers of rabbits?
HAWKS
What ocean animals are quaternary consumers?
Tertiary Consumers: The diets of tertiary consumers may include animals from both the primary and secondary trophic levels. Like secondary consumers, their diet may also include some plants. Examples of tertiary consumers include Hawks, Alligators and Coyotes. Hawks feed on small mammals, lizards and snakes.
Two secondary ocean consumers?
The ones that eat the primary consumers...
How are primary consumers different from secondary consumers?
primary consumers are herbivores and secondary consumers are carnivores so secondary consumers eat primary consumers
