Question

A Hawk that eats a frog is a
(a)Producer
(b)Primary Consumer
(c)Secondary Consumer
(d)Tertiary Consumer

Answer 1

Hint: Hawk is a carnivore at the topmost level in a food chain that feeds on other carnivores. They eat primary consumers and other secondary consumers.

Complete answer:
A Hawk that eats a frog is a tertiary Consumer. A tertiary consumer is an animal that consumes its nutrition by eating primary consumers and secondary consumers. Eg- a hawk eats a frog, which has eaten a grasshopper, which has eaten grass.
Usually, tertiary consumers are carnivorous predators, although they'll even be omnivores, which are animals that prey on both meat and plant material.
Within an ecosystem, the energy that's present within its organisms is passed through a food chain or food cycle. Each organism during a food chain occupies a specific position called a trophic level, whereby animals consume other animals in lower trophic levels and are eaten by those in higher trophic levels.
Tertiary consumers often occupy the top trophic level, they are predated by no other animals; during this case, they're called “apex predators”. However, once they die their bodies are going to be consumed by scavengers and decomposers.

Additional Information: Producer – They are basically a green plant, which produces its own food by photosynthesis
Primary Consumer – They are the animals, which consume only plant matter. They're herbivores - e.g. rabbits, caterpillars, cows, sheep, and deer.
Secondary Consumer – They are the animals, which consume primary consumers (herbivores).
So, the correct answer is ‘Tertiary Consumer’.

Note: The word 'hawk' is used to refer to a large group of birds of prey. There are over 200 different types of hawks living today. They're raptors, which suggests they need sharp beaks and long, sharp talons that they use to seize their prey.