Organisms That Eat Producers are Known As

Question

Organisms that eat producers are known as
A)cannibals.
B)secondary producers.
C)primary consumers.
D)predators.

Accepted Answer

Primary consumers are organisms that eat producers, which are the first trophic level in a food chain or web. Cannibals are organisms that eat members of their own species, not producers. Secondary producers are organisms that convert food into biomass, not organisms that consume it. Predators are organisms that kill and eat other organisms, but they may consume any trophic level and not just producers.