What is a grasshopper in the food chain?

What is a grasshopper in the food chain?

A grasshopper is an herbivore, which means that it is a consumer that eats only plants. The grasshopper uses the energy it gets from eating the plant to carry out its life activities, such as moving, growing, and reproducing. The mouse and the hawk are at the third and fourth levels of the food chain example.

What is the Hawks food chain?

Hawks are considered to be secondary or tertiary consumers in a food chain. This means they eat primary consumers and other secondary consumers.

What is the role of Grasshopper in the food web?

Grasshoppers are the major, above ground, insect consumer of vegetation on grasslands. They have an important role in the ecosystem as prey for other animals and in nutrient cycling. When grasshoppers damage crops or threaten to consume too much forage, insecticides are now used to control their populations.

Is a grasshopper an organism?

Grasshoppers are a group of insects belonging to the suborder Caelifera. They are among what is probably the most ancient living group of chewing herbivorous insects, dating back to the early Triassic around 250 million years ago.

What is the correct food chain?

The process of transfer of energy from producers through a series of organisms, i.e., from primary consumers to secondary consumers and from secondary consumers to tertiary consumers by process of eating and being eaten constitute a food chain. The correct food chain is phytoplankton >> zooplankton >> fish.

Why are hawks at the top of the food chain?

When they breed and hatch eggs, they will constantly be around their nests and protect them. But when they’re out and about, they fly so high that almost no other species is able to attack them as they fly. This means hawks are at the top of the food chain, and adult hawks don’t have many natural predators.

What are the animals in a food chain?

A food chain is one animal right after each other (ex. hawk> snake> mouse> grass) and on a food chain things branch off. (ex. hawk and eagle> snake and cat> mouse and cow> grass). All of this would be in diagram form. Look up pictures of food chain and food web on the internet.

Which is an example of a producer in the food chain?

In a food web a ‘producer’ is an organism that produces biomass from inorganic compounds. (Plants) In the food chain, Grass > Cow > Wolf; Grass is the producer. What is an example of a consumer in a food chain?

How is the cat food chain made up?

A cat food chain is made up of this it starts with a leaf caterpillar then the bird then the cat! Cats came to be because of the egyptian people worshiped cats like the egyptians! Thank you! RANDOM FACTS! What you should feed your cat and why…………!

Who is a consumer in the food chain?

A consumer is an organism in a food chain than obtains energy(chemical energy) from food such as another organism e.g a cow eats the grass. The cow is a primary consumer; a tiger eats the cow; the tiger is a secondary consumer So Anything in the food chain/web after the producer (plant) is a consumer