18. Quiz: Navigating the Food Chain (3-8)

From the smallest of creatures to the largest of animals, inevitably every living, breathing thing must ingest other organisms to survive. This means that all animals will fall within one of the three consumer-based categories based on the types of food that they eat.

• Animals that eat only plants are called herbivores
• Animals that eat only other animals are called carnivores
• Animals that eat both plants and animals are called omnivores

Directions:

Write a series of ternary statements that sets the variable category equal to:

• "herbivore" if an animal eats plants
• "carnivore" if an animal eats animals
• "omnivore" if an animal eats plants and animals
• undefined if an animal doesn't eat plants or animals

Use the eatsPlants and eatsAnimals variables to test your code.

TIP: Make sure to test your code with different values. For example,


If eatsPlants equals true and eatsAnimals equals false, then herbivore should be printed to the console.

Your Code:

Start Quiz:

/*
 * Programming Quiz - Navigating the Food Chain (3-8)
 *
 * Use a series of ternary operator to set the category to one of the following:
 *   - "herbivore" if an animal eats plants
 *   - "carnivore" if an animal eats animals
 *   - "omnivore" if an animal eats plants and animals
 *   - undefined if an animal doesn't eat plants or animals
 *
 * Notes
 *   - use the variables `eatsPlants` and `eatsAnimals` in your ternary expressions
 *   - `if` statements aren't allowed ;-)
 */

// change the values of `eatsPlants` and `eatsAnimals` to test your code
var eatsPlants = false;
var eatsAnimals = true;

var category = /* your code goes here */

console.log(category);