'Herbivores' in a food chain are

 'Herbivores' in a food chain are

1

primary producers

2

primary consumers

Correct Answer

3

secondary consumers

4

decomposers

 The correct answer is primary consumers.

Key Points

• Food chain:​ The sequence of living organisms in a community in which one organism consumes another organism to transfer food energy is called a food chain.
• In simple words, A list of organisms showing 'who eats whom' is called the food chain.
• The food can be transferred from one organism to the other through the food chain.
• Each step in the food chain is represented by a trophic level.
• Producers occupy the base of the food chain, producers are followed by Primary Consumers → Secondary consumers → Tertiary consumers → Decomposers.
• Herbivores are the animals that eat plants for their nutrition.
• They occupy the position of primary consumers. Example - Cow, goat, deer, grasshopper, etc.

Example of a food chain - 

• Grass → grasshopper → frog → snake
• Here, Grass represents the Producer, grasshopper the primary consumer, frog the secondary consumer & snake is the tertiary consumer.