Consider the following prairie food chain. Tall grass is consumed by grasshoppers that, in turn, are eaten by mice, and the mice
are eaten by prairie kingsnakes. Red-tailed hawks prey on mice and prairie kingsnakes. When a red-tailed hawk dies, bacteria, beetles, fungi, and many types of worms help break down the body. Which of the following correctly identifies a trophic level in this ecosystem? View Available Hint(s) A. The tall grass is a decomposer
B. The red-tailed hawk is a secondary consumer.
C. The worms are primary producers.
D. Grasshoppers are primary consumers.
Autotrophs serve as primary producers in a food chain as they can make organic food by the process of photosynthesis. In the given food chain, tall grass is the primary producer. Grasshoppers derive their nutrition from the tall grass. The organisms that derive nutrition directly from the primary producers are said to be primary consumers. This makes grasshoppers primary consumers.
Mice the secondary consumers as they feed on the grasshoppers, the primary consumers. Red-tailed hawks are the top consumers in the given food chain. The bacteria, beetles, fungi, and worms are the decomposers that derive nutrition from the organic matter present in the dead bodies of the red-tailed hawks.
Explanation: As the water ran through and against the river banks and land, it slowly begins to erode. Also, as deposition occurs (Deposition-When a river deposits the silt and other things in it out into the ocean or where ever it empties.) it creates a delta.
The rural population of humans is characterized by the lag phase because they are linked with farming of crops and domesticated animals. This population is responsible for the soil erosion and food shortages over the country because they are the producers of everything for the food industry. Due to farming methods, soil erosion occurs that leads to the depletion of nutritive part of the soil that causes less productivity of the crop and as a result food shortage occur.
