A bird stalks, kills, and then eats an insect. Based on its behavior, which pair of ecological terms describes the bird?

a) herbivore; decomposer
b) carnivore; consumer
c) autotroph; herbivore
d) producer; heterotroph


Ans: b) carnivore; consumer

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