Using this chart of word roots and affixes, which is the most likely meaning of the word tripod?

Prefixes

Sumixes

mono: one

bi: two

tri: three

omni: all

pro: for, in favor of

forward

epi: on, outside

se: apart

athlon, prize, contest -able, -ible capable of

ped, pod, foot -ic: like, related to

phon, phone: sound -oid. resembling

spect to look

-ant, having the qualities of

derma: skin

-ia: condition, world, society

hydr. water

-ology, -logy, the study of

cred, to believe, trust -ous: full of

tone: tone, sound

-ence: a state or condition

A. An animal that walks on four legs

B. A three-legged stand

C. A three-part belief system

D. The ability to walk on hind legs

Tara sees a commercial for a brand of pills that promise to boost energy and people perform better in work and school. as people in the commercial talk about how much better they feel when taking the pill, tara notices a message on the bottom of the screen that reads, "this pill is not approved by doctors and has not been tested in controlled experiments." what is the best conclusion that tara should make about the commercial? it is making scientific claims based on subjective observations. it is making scientific claims based on opinions instead of pseudoscientific facts. it is making pseudoscientific claims based on objective observations. it is making pseudoscientific claims based on opinions instead of scientific facts.

Bisphenol a (often called bpa) is a chemical found in products that people use every day, from water bottles to food containers to children's toys. unfortunately, bpa leaches out of its many products and makes its way into our bodies. what are the health effects of bpa exposure? ongoing research is finding that elevated exposure to bpa can affect a wide variety of developmental and physiological processes, but one of the first studies of bpa's health effects came about because of a simple mistake in the lab. at a laboratory at case western reserve university in 1998, geneticist patricia hunt was making a routine check of her female lab mice. as she extracted and examined developing eggs from the ovaries, she began to wonder what had gone wrong. she noticed that many of the eggs showed problems with their chromosomes, and some had irregular amounts of genetic material, which can lead to miscarriages and birth defects in mammals. she learned that a lab assistant had mistakenly washed the plastic mouse cages and water bottles with a harsh soap, releasing bpa from the plastic. knowing that bpa is an endocrine disruptor, a chemical that can enter organisms and mimic hormones, hunt set out to discover whether it had adversely affected her mice.

According to this food web which of the following would be considered primary consumers