The diagram below shows a food web. The organisms in a food web can be classified based on how they get the energy they need. Which organism in this food web is a primary consumer?

Group of answer choices

mouse

snake

fox

hawk
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A Mouse

Explanation:

Primary consumers are the consumers that get their energy from producers.

The hawk is a predator. Their diet consists only of other consumers.

A fox is a secondary consumer.

The snake eats mice and lizards which are both consumers.

The mouse is the only answer choice that only gets energy from producers, meeting the requirements to be a primary consumer.

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the supermassive black hole is in the middle of the galaxy.

1. the energy lost to disorder metabolism     -entropy

2. related to or possessing motion potential     -kinetic

3. all of the chemical reactions in an organism required for maintenance of the processes of life entropy     -metabolism

4. possible; ability to go into action or perform work kinetic     -potential

5. the study of energy and its transformations thermodynamics     -thermodynamics