Question

this diagram shows a food chain from bylot island, a tundra ecosystem in canada. the short - tailed weasel is a predator. why? it hunts and eats a consumer. it eats a producer. it makes its own food.

Explanation:

A predator is an organism that hunts and eats other organisms. In the food chain, the short - tailed weasel hunts and eats the collared lemming (a consumer). Producers (like bear sedge) make their own food through photosynthesis. If an organism ate a producer, it would be a primary consumer, not a predator. And if an organism made its own food, it would be a producer.

Answer:

It hunts and eats a consumer.