Tertiary Consumers Heterotrophs Apex Predators Education Notes Secondary consumer heterotroph—an animal that eats primary consumers. examples: blue claw crab, lobster, seastar, humpback whale, silverside; tertiary consumer heterotroph—an animal that eats secondary consumers. examples: shark, dolphin; apex predator heterotroph—an animal at the top of the food chain with no predators. examples: shark. Further trophic levels are numbered subsequently according to how far the organism is along the food chain. level 1: plants and algae make their own food and are called producers. level 2: herbivores eat plants and are called primary consumers. level 3: carnivores that eat herbivores are called secondary consumers.
Food Chain 4 Tertiary Consumer A Z Animals : what predators eat, hunted and killed for food . primary consumers: animals that eat primary producers (herbivores) secondary consumers: carnivores or omnivores, can be preyed upon by tertiary consumers . tertiary consumers: apex predators, at the top of the food chain, feeds upon secondary and primary consumers . trophic cascade. # tertiary consumer # heterotrophs # apex predators # food chain# trophic level # ecosystemanimals that obtain their nutrition by eating primary consum. Tertiary consumers eat the secondary consumers. they are at the fourth trophic level. in the desert ecosystem, an owl or eagle may prey on a snake. there may be more levels of consumers before a chain finally reaches its top predator. top predators, also called apex predators, eat other consumers. they may be at the fourth or fifth trophic. There may be more levels of consumers before a chain finally reaches its top predator. top predators, also called apex predators, eat other consumers. higher level consumers (i.e., secondary, tertiary, and above) can be carnivores (animals that eat other animals) or omnivores (animals that eat both plants and animals). omnivores, like people.
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