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Secondary consumers eat primary consumers. Primary consumers are herbivores (animals that eat plants). Therefore secondary consumers eat other animals and are sometimes called carnivores. (Secondary consumers could also be omnivores.)
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Why are consumers called the secondary consumers?
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What is the difference between primary secondary and tertiary consumers?
Some consumers are called "primary consumers" and others are called "secondary consumers" because the primary consumer is the first consumer and a secondary is the second consumer.
Why are secondary consumers called secondary consumers?
Because, animals that eat other animals
Are organisms that eat other animals?
Animals that eat other organisms are called carnivores, or sometimes secondary consumers.
What predator eats other predators?
Predators that eat other predators are called secondary consumers or tertiary consumers. Secondary consumers are predators that eat predators that feed on autotrophs. Tertiary consumers feed on secondary consumers.
What are organisms that eats other animals?
Animals that eat other organisms are called carnivores, or sometimes secondary consumers.
What are secondary consumers and what do they eat?
Secondary consumers are organisms that consume primary consumers. Primary consumers are organisms that eat primary producers, which are usually photosynthetic plants, protists, and bacteria. Primary consumers are always considered herbivores. Secondary consumers are usually carnivores, but they can also be omnivores. For example, while rats eat grain, they are secondary consumers, because they sometimes eat herbivorous insects. A frog can be a secondary consumer because it eats grass-eating crickets.
A lion is an example of a group of consumers called?
Lions are secondary consumers, they prey mostly on primary consumers.
Are raccoons consumers?
A racoon is a scavenger .
What is a meat eater that eats secondary consumers called?
Secondary consumers eat primary consumers. They are carnivores (meat-eaters) and omnivores (animals that eat both animals and plants). THEY ARE TERITARY CONSUMERS!!
A sentence for secondary consumers?
Secondary consumers are herbivores that feed on 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
