consumers and its types

2. M FURQAN AHMED
FA13-BES-010
COMSATS ABBOTTABAD
Bs Environmental sciences

3.  DEF:
 A consumers is an organism.
 They referred as Heterotrophs.
 They does not produce their own food.
 They eat other organism to get food.

4. Consumers are typically viewed as predatory animals
such as the wolf and hyena. However, herbivorous
animals and parasitic fungi are also consumers. Some
carnivorous plants, like the Venus flytrap, are classified
as both.

5.  consumers are categorized into three types:
 Primary consumers
 Secondary consumers
 Tertiary consumers

6. Primary consumers are organisms that consume
producers for energy and nutrients.
The producers in many recognizable ecosystems are
plants.
The primary consumers are the herbivorous animals
that consume the plants or grass.

7. Primary consumer are basically the herbivores of the
ocean.
In Ocean, the primary
consumers are lobster,
mussules,
and shrimp.
Shrimp are still considered primary consumers even
though they eat phytoplankton, which are a producer
rather than a plant.
This is because phytoplankton gets energy from the
sun, not plants.

8. Herbivorus animals feeding on the leaves, grass and
fruits of producers are the primary consumers.
These are ants, flies, beetles, locusts, leafhoppers,
bugs, spiders etc.
Among small animals, Squirrels, Flying foxes, cattles ,
rabbits etc are also primary consumers.

9. secondary consumer is any carnivore that feeds on primary
producers.
In more specific scientific language, the secondary
consumer is an animal that resides in the second level of
the food chain.
These animals are mostly carnivorous in nature and obtain
energy by hunting and killing animals that primarily feed
on the land.
Some secondary consumers feed mostly on dead animals.

10. Secondary consumers include fish, whales and the
friendly basking, and whale sharks.
They are the animals in the middle of the food chain.
they eat plankton, shrimp and mollusks, which are
primary consumers .
Basking sharks are friendly sharks, that do not have
any teeth. They filter plankton and other krill into
their enourmas mouth (left).
Basking sharks are the longest shark, however, a little
bit smaller than whale sharks.

12. In the forest, secondary consumers(Omnivores) eat
primary consumer (herbivores).
In the forest, secondary
consumers are foxes,
snakes,
owls, etc.

13. Tertiary consumer are called omnivores.
Its is at the top level of food chain at all trophic level.
They are also called scavangers.
Tertiary consumers must eat other animals, meaning
they must be either carnivores or omnivores (meaning
they eat both plants and animals).
Tertiary consumers cannot be herbivores because they
are at too high of a level on the food chain.

14. Tertiary consumers are the organisms that eat the
secondary consumers, primary consumers, and
sometimes producers.
Like Pelicans are birds of the sea. they eat a variety of
small fish(herbivores or carnivores).
And like stingray is a ray, a flat fish with a tail and
wings. Stingrays are bottom feeders, which means they
eat stuff from the bottom side of their body, where the
mouth is located.

16. Tertiary consumer are called omnivores.
In forest, tertiary consumer are hawks, and wolves,
lions and bears.
Lion feed on herbivores and carnivores like cattle,
foxes and others for food.