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Is a blue whale primary consumer or a secondary consumer or a top level consumer?
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The blue whale is a tertiary consumer, They feed on krill which are tiny crustaceans that feed on phytoplankton (plants). The whales' only natural predator is the orca which would make the orca the top level consumer.
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Order of consumers in the ecosystem?
Sun or hydrothermal vent produces for the producer (not an animal but still a producer) NOTE: This example is in the ocean Primary Producer: phytoplankton 1st order consumer / Primary Consumer: zoo plankton 2nd order consumer / Secondary Consumer: fish 3rd order consumer / Tertiary Consumer: Seal / Sealion/ Penguin 4th order consumer / Quaternary Consumer: Killer whale / Shark / Polar bear
Is a blue jay a primary consumer secondary consumer tertiary consumer or a scavenger decomposer?
Primary consumers eat plant matter, secondary consumers eat organisms that have fed from the plant-eaters and tertiary consumers are organisms that feed from secondary consumers. Scavengers and decomposers feed on dead animals and plant material, including all kind of food waste. Blue jays have a very varied diet and eat almost anything that could be considered as a food source. When they eat fruits, grains, or berries, they are a primary consumer. When they eat meat, including small invertebrates, they are secondary, or possibly tertiary consumers depending exactly what their food has eaten before being eaten by the blue jay. When they eat table scraps or other food waste they are scavengers.
What are types of secondary ocean consumers?
Anything that eats zoo-plankton is a secondary consumer in the ocean. Because much of the oceans ecosystem is reliant on phytoplankton, and zoo-plankton are some of the only creature that consume phytoplankton, making them a primary consumer, anything that eats zoo-plankton is a secondary consumer. Some exmaples of secondary consumers are muscles, scallops, barnacles, and moving up the scale even the blue whale eats zoo-plankton, therefore making it a secondary consumer.
What is an quarternary consumer?
A quaternary consumer is a consumer on the fourth trophic level for a biome. Usually it is a top predator or scavenger. Also, they are usually the species on the top of the food chain.
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.
Do you know what type a blue whale is like is it a primary secondary or is it a top-level consumer?
It is a top level consumer
Is a whale a producer primary consumer or secondary consumer?
tertiary
What is the trophic level of a blue whale?
tertiary consumer
Is a beluga whale a primary consumer secondary consumer or a 3rd level consuemer?
Blue whales feed almost exclusively on krill, which are small shrimp-like crustaceans.Krill eat phytoplankton (which are producers) - making them primary consumers.Whale eat primary consumers, and so are secondary consumers.(However, because they don't really have any natural predators, they could potentially be called top-level as well).
What type of consumer are squids?
== ---- Squids are secondary consumer because they eat fish which would be primary consumers because they eat producers and the squid eat the primary consumer, fish which makes them secondary consumers. the squid eventually get eaten by sperm whale or even humans, making them tertiary consumers. ----
Is a whale a primary consumer?
yea
Is the killer whale a consumer?
The killer whale is a secondary or tertiary consumer, depending on what they eat. If the prey item feeds on plant matter, then it is a secondary consumer. However, most orcas eat prey that feed on invertebrates, shellfish or fish, making them primarily tertiary consumers.
Is a baleen whale a primary and a secondary consumer?
producer
Why is the ocean food chain pretty long?
The ocean food chain is pretty long and it contains about 10 links. The primary consumer is the zooplankton, which is the smallest animal in the world, the size of a tiny pencil dot but still can be seen with a naked eye and the apex predator is the whale, which is the novenary consumer. The blue whale is the biggest animal in the world and most scientists estimated that about quintillions of zooplanktons can make up the blue whale size. Ocean Food Chain: Sun>Seaweed>Zooplankton>Plankton>Krill>Shrimp>Small Fish>Medium Fish>Big Fish>Shark>Whale Trophic Level Classification: Seaweed~Producer Zooplankton~Primary Consumer Plankton~Secondary Consumer Krill~Tertiary Consumer Shrimp~Quaternary Consumer Small Fish~Quinary Consumer Medium Fish~Senary Consumer Big Fish~Septenary Consumer Shark~Octonary Consumer Whale~Novenary Consumer or Apex Predator The whales usually eat sharks as their normal food diet. The whale is the ocean's apex predator, not the shark.
What is a secondary consumer of the beach?
A secondary consumer is one that eats a primary consumer, and is therefore either carnivorous or omnivorous. These trophic levels are not innate to the organism, and it can change its behavior and therefore its place in the food chain. Producers cannot become consumers, and consumers cannot become producers, but secondary consumers can become primary consumers, or tertiary consumers, etc. Two examples of secondary consumers in the ocean would be the orca (a carnivorous mammal), and the whale shark (an omnivorous fish). Secondary consumers are not necessarily apex predators, although those two are. Squids are also typically secondary consumers, and are not apex predators.
Order of consumers in the ecosystem?
Sun or hydrothermal vent produces for the producer (not an animal but still a producer) NOTE: This example is in the ocean Primary Producer: phytoplankton 1st order consumer / Primary Consumer: zoo plankton 2nd order consumer / Secondary Consumer: fish 3rd order consumer / Tertiary Consumer: Seal / Sealion/ Penguin 4th order consumer / Quaternary Consumer: Killer whale / Shark / Polar bear
Is a blue jay a primary consumer secondary consumer tertiary consumer or a scavenger decomposer?
Primary consumers eat plant matter, secondary consumers eat organisms that have fed from the plant-eaters and tertiary consumers are organisms that feed from secondary consumers. Scavengers and decomposers feed on dead animals and plant material, including all kind of food waste. Blue jays have a very varied diet and eat almost anything that could be considered as a food source. When they eat fruits, grains, or berries, they are a primary consumer. When they eat meat, including small invertebrates, they are secondary, or possibly tertiary consumers depending exactly what their food has eaten before being eaten by the blue jay. When they eat table scraps or other food waste they are scavengers.
