Consider a simple food chain in which a grasshopper eats grass,the grasshopper is eaten by a frog,and the frog is eaten by a snake.Which of the following is correctly matched?
A)Grass - secondary consumer.
B)Grasshopper - herbivore.
C)Frog - autotroph.
D)Snake - primary consumer.

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A herbivore is an animal that eats only plants, and a grasshopper eats grass. Therefore, the correct match is Grasshopper-herbivore. The grass is the primary producer, the grasshopper is the primary consumer (as it eats the grass), the frog is the secondary consumer (as it eats the grasshopper), and the snake is the tertiary consumer (as it eats the frog).

Consider a Simple Food Chain in Which a Grasshopper Eats