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Consumers that eat producers are called Primary Consumers Consumers that eat Primary Consumers are called Secondary Consumers Consumers that eat Secondary Consumers are called Tertiary Consumers

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Is a rabbit a primary consumer a secondary consumer or tertiary consumer?

A rabbit is a primary consumer - it eats producers. Secondary consumers eat herbivores or omnivores and consumers that eat other carnivores are tertiary consumers.


What are secondary and primary consumers?

Primary consumers feed on producers (plants) and secondary consumers feed on primary consumers. For example, rabbits are primary consumers because they feed on vegetation. Foxes are secondary consumers because they feed on rabbits.


Are all herbivores primary consumers?

Yes, a maple tree produces its own food and there for is a primary consumer, anything that eats the maple tree would be a secondary consumer.


What do you call a consumer who eats primary consumers?

A consumer who eats primary consumers is known as a secondary consumer. This means they are one step higher in the food chain and rely on consuming animals that feed on primary producers. Some examples of secondary consumers include carnivores like wolves and hawks.


Is herbivorous is a consumer?

Many consumers are herbivores. For example: a horse eats plants, which are producers, therefore horses are consumers.Examples of consumers that are herbivores:HorsesCowsDeerOxenSheepRabbitsElephantsHope this helped.


Is a snake a consumer or a herbivore?

Herbivores are consumers. Snakes are consumers, but not herbivores.


Mouse secondary consumer?

A mouse would be considered a secondary consumer because it eats primary consumers (such as insects or seeds). In a food chain, it would come after the primary consumers but before the tertiary consumers.


What eats the consumes?

Primary consumers in an ecosystem are the animals that eat and get their energy from producers (plants/vegetation etc.) for example: Cabbage (Producer) ----> Caterpillar (primary consumer). Primary consumers are mainly classed as herbivores. A secondary consumer would be something that then eats the primary consumer.


Are jaguars consumers?

Yes.


Are carnivores consumes?

Plants are producers, herbivores are primary consumers, and carnivores are secondary consumers, or higher if they eat other carnivores. For example, a carnivore that eats secondary consumer carnivores is a tertiary consumer.


Primary consumer in a food chain?

Herbivores form the primary consumers in a food chain.


What is a meat-eater that eats primary consumers?

A meat-eater that eats primary consumers is a secondary consumer. Then goes the tertiary consumer, quartenary consumer, etc. It only goes up to 5 though, because the energy from the sun is so low after the 5th one.