Can a first level consumer eat a second level consumer?

Answer 1

1st level consumers are any heterotrophs (animals that do not harvest food through photosynthesis or chemosynthesis) that eat producers (plants, bacteria, things that make their own food). 2nd level consumers are carnivores or omnivores that eat 1st level consumers, and the 3rd eats 2nd, and so on and so forth.

Well a 3rd level consumer is a decomposer second is a carnivore first is a herbivore

Answer 2

Top consumers or first level, eat many trophic levels, while a second level carnivore will only eat at one trophic level. A trophic level is a ladder or an order of what eats what, kind of like a food chain.

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Answer 3

the first level consumer eats the producer and the second level consumer eats another consumer
A 1st degree consumer is a type of animal that eats crops, a 2nd degree consumer is a type of animal that eats the 1st degree consumers and a 3rd degree consumer is a type of animal that eats the 2nd degree consumer.

there are also decomposers that decompose the dead 1st, 2nd and 3rd degree consumers to restart the cycle over again.

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Answer 4

When one is considering an eco system all organisms are divided into one of 5 category's.

producer, primary (first) consumer, secondary consumer, tertiary consumer and in some ecosystems there is a forth level consumer.

producers are plants and any animal which obtains it energy from a source other than another animal. (eg.. deep water animals)

primary or first level consumers feed on the producers and get there energy from them.

secondary consumers obtain there energy from eating the primary consumers.

tertiary consumers obtain there energy from secondary consumers,

and forth level consumers obtain there energy from tertiary consumers.

but this always doesnt work as some animals eat both primary consumers and secodary, these organisms are placed with in these category on a case by case basis

Answer 5

no because a 2nd level is some thing that ONLY can eat a 1st for example a zoo plankton for 1st 2nd would be like a auklet a 1st would have to be smaller than the first and HAS to be eating by a 2nd but may be 3rd could be eatin by a 2nd rarely matters if it would be a lepaord eatin by a lion if food was very little? So answer: pretty much would be no but may be 2nd eating 3rd YES.

Answer 6

~1st Level consumers are Herbivores (in case you want to know).

~2nd Level consumers are Carnivores and Omnivores.

~3rd Level consumers are Carnivores.

Answer 7

Yes, a first level consumer can eat a second level consumer, as they are higher up in the food chain and feed on organisms from lower trophic levels. This process transfers energy and nutrients from one level to another in the ecosystem.

Answer 8

That the First order consumer is a herbivore which only eats plants but a carnivore eats meat and that is the second consumer

Answer 9

A first level consumer eats only plants. Second level consumers eat first level consumers. The answer is no by the very definition.