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For some reason I can't comment on this post!

This is my comment for OliviaF.

The primary consumer is the consumer that would eat the producer, so it it the first consumer in the food web, but the second organism in the food web. The consumer is just an "in general" consumer, or an organism that eats another organism to get its energy. If you mean like the secondary consumer and all consumers after that, it just means that the organisms they eat are also consumers. So primary consumers are the second organisms in a food chain (and web I guess) because they eat the producers, who are obviously the first in the chain, and the secondary consumers are the third in food chain (and web) because they eat the primary consumers who eat the producers, and so on all the way up the chain (and, again, web).