Question

When peacock, eats snake, snake eats insects, insects depends on green plants. Then peacock is at

• A. A primary consumer
• B. A primary decomposer
• C. A final decomposer of plants
• D. The apex of the food pyramid

Answer 1

The correct option is D The apex of the food pyramid

The food chain is the sequence of population or organisms through which food and its contained energy pass in an ecosystem with members at one step becoming the food of later step of the sequence. The food relations between the organisms expressed as food chains are concerned with biotic components only. When one organism consumes another in a food chain there is the transfer of nutrients and energy from one to the other trophic level. The peacock here acts as a tertiary consumer.

So, the correct answer is option D.