In a tropical rain forest, insects feed on leaves while frogs eat the insects. At ground level, fungi digest waste material to supply their nutritional needs.
In this ecosystem, frogs are

A)
consumers.

B)
decomposers.

C)
parasites.

D)
producers.

Food chain may be defined as the sequential tropic food levels in the ecosystem. The organism eats other organism and itself being eaten by the other organism.

Producers are the organism that prepare their own food in the food chain. The frog eats insect. Here, the frogs acts as the consumer as it depends on the other organism for its food and eats directly plants and butterflies.

Thus, the answer is option (A).

In a tropical rain forest, insects feed on leaves while frogs eat the insects. At ground level, fungi digest waste material to supply their nutritional needs. In this ecosystem, frogs are A) consumers. B) decomposers. C) parasites. D) producers.

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In a tropical rain forest, insects feed on leaves while frogs eat the insects. At ground level, fungi digest waste material to supply their nutritional needs.
In this ecosystem, frogs are

A)
consumers.

B)
decomposers.

C)
parasites.

D)
producers.