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Contents
Key Stage 2
Meaning
A consumer is a creature the eats other creatures.
About Consumers
- A consumer cannot make its own food so it must eat other creatures.
- A consumer might eat a producer, or it might eat another consumer.
Examples
In this food chain the bush is the producer and the gazelle and cheetah are consumers. |
In this food chain the grass is the producer and the grasshopper, baboon and cheetah are all consumers. |
Key Stage 3
Meaning
A consumer is an organism that feeds off other organisms.
About Consumers
- A consumer cannot make its own food so it must eat other creatures.
- A consumer might eat a producer, or it might eat another consumer.
- Consumers can be labelled as primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary, depending on where they are in a food chain.
In this food chain the giraffe is a primary consumer and the lion is a secondary consumer. |
In this food chain the grasshopper, pied flycatcher, skunk and vulture are all consumers. |
Key Stage 4
Meaning
About Consumers
- Consumers are in the second trophic level or higher.
- Consumers may be primary secondary, tertiary or quaternary consumers.
- Consumers are usually either animals or fungi.