ECOLOGY
ENERGY FLOW AND PRIMARY PRODUCTION
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Question
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What is a consumer?
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Organism that creates their own food.
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Organism that eat other organisms for energy
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Organism that eat other dead organisms
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -A heterotroph is an organism that consumes other organisms in a food chain.
Detailed explanation-2: -Consumers can be carnivores (animals that eat other animals) or omnivores (animals that eat both plants and animals). Omnivores, like people, consume many types of foods. People eat plants, such as vegetables and fruits. We also eat animals and animal products, such as meat, milk, and eggs.
Detailed explanation-3: -The organisms that eat the primary consumers are meat eaters (carnivores) and are called the secondary consumers. The secondary consumers tend to be larger and fewer in number. This continues on, all the way up to the top of the food chain.
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