Question

Study the food web shown here. Which list contains all the consumers in this food web?
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(a) grasses, shrubs
(b) grasses, shrubs, grasshoppers, mice, rabbits
(c) hawks, foxes
(d) grasshoppers, mice, rabbits, birds, hawks, foxes.

Answer 1

(d) grasshoppers, mice, rabbits, birds, hawks, foxes

Consumers are organisms that obtain their food by eating or digesting other organisms. They include herbivores and carnivores of the ecosystem. In the given food web, grasshoppers, mice, rabbit, birds, hawks and foxes are consumers. Grasses and shrubs are producers.