A crocodile had just eaten a lamb when a hawk saw the crocodile attacked it, and consumed it. The hawk is in ecological terms:
Correct answer: D. A tertiary consumer
- A. A producer
- B. A primary consumer
- C. A secondary consumer
- D. A tertiary consumer
Explanation
The lamb is a herbivore and therefore a primary consumer; the crocodile becomes a secondary consumer when it eats the lamb. The hawk eats that secondary consumer, placing it at the tertiary-consumer level in this chain.
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