Question

Consider the following food chain. grass → caterpillar → chicken → fox What role does the chicken play? producer primary consumer secondary consumer tertiary consumer decomposer

Answer 1

Answer:

secondary consumer

Explanation:

Secondary consumers are carnivores and have a diet based on the consumption of primary consuming animals. They get their energy from other individuals who in turn consume the producers. The producers are autotrophic beings that are in the first trophic level of the food chain, that is, they are the vegetables. Primary consumers are herbivorous beings that feed on vegetables.

Accordingly, we can conclude that grass is the producer, larva is the primary consumer and chicken is the secondary consumer.

Answer 2

Answer: secondary consumer

Explanation:

A food chain is a linear sequence of transfer of food and energy when one organism is consumed by the another organism in an ecosystem. According to the given situation, the grass is the producer because it can produce it's own food by the process of photosynthesis. The caterpillar is the herbivorous insect which can be a primary consumer because it feeds over the grass. The chicken is the secondary consumer because it feeds upon the caterpillar. The chicken is eaten by the fox which is a tertiary consumer.