Organisms and Their Surroundings

Hawks is an example of tertiary consumer.

What do you understand by ecology.

Secondary consumers are those which feed on primary consumers (herbivores). They can either be carnivores or omnivores.

In the following food chain, plants provide $2000 \mathrm{J}$ of energy to rats. How much energy (in joules) will be available to hawks from the snakes?

$\mathrm{Plants}\to \mathrm{Rats}\to \mathrm{Snakes}\to \mathrm{Hawks}$

In the following food chain, $5 \mathrm{J}$ of energy is available to man. How much energy (in joules) was available at the producer level?

$\mathrm{Plant}\to \mathrm{Sheep}\to \mathrm{Man}$