Question

All of the following organisms are correctly paired with their trophic level except
A) Tree producers
B) Hawk- primary consumer
C) Fungi- detritivore
D) Fox- secondary consumer
E) Grasshopper- primary consumer

Answer 1

Hint: In the earth, there is a food link which means that every organism depends on food from another organism, and based on another organism was a food web which has five trophic levels in general, and this food web or food pyramid is upright and it denotes that energy lost in each level of the food pyramid.

Complete answer:
In the food pyramid, there are 5 trophic levels, and this is started with producers, and then primary consumers, secondary and tertiary and at the top, there are apex predators.
A. Tree- producers: All plants are autotrophs which means that they synthesize their food by utilizing sunlight, water, as they have chloroplast, so all plants and some algae, which can produce food are producers. So it is the correct match.
Hawk: primary consumer: primary consumers are also called herbivores, this is the one that depends on plants for their food, and the next level to the producers and some of the examples of herbivores are goats, cows, etc. But hawk is not a primary consumer, it is a tertiary consumer, where it depends on owls like birds for their food, so this is the wrong option.
Fungi: detrivore, these are the organisms which depend on dead and decaying organisms and absorb the nutrients from them, and fungi are one of them so it is the correct match.
Fox- secondary consumers: Secondary consumers are those that depend on herbivores or primary consumers for their food, and foxes depend on herbivores so it is the correct match.
Grasshopper-Primary consumers are those which depend on producers for their food and it is the correct match.

So, the correct option is B.

Note: Producers are the ones which prepare food by utilizing natural resources such as sunlight and food, and this are come in first trophic level, and some which depends on producers are primary consumers, they come in second trophic level, and secondary consumers or carnivores depends on primary consumers for food are come under third trophic level, and apex predators are on top of the food pyramid.