British Sign Language Glossaries of Curriculum Terms

BSL Environmental Science Glossary - Consumer definition

Definition: A Consumer is any animal that eats other animals. It doesn’t include plants because they are producers. Anything that eats plants is a consumer and that applies to any animal that eats another animal in the food chain. For example, a food chain starts with green plants, in this example, grass. The grass might then be eaten by a grasshopper which, in turn, might be eaten by a bird. The bird could then be eaten by a fox. There are two types of consumers - primary consumer which is the first one in the chain that eats the plants (the grasshopper), and the secondary consumer which, in this example, is the bird.
e.g Grass → grasshopper → bird → fox.