ECOLOGY
ENERGY FLOW AND PRIMARY PRODUCTION
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An animal that eats only plants
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An animal that eats other animals
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An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms.
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The transfer (movement) of energy.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Heterotrophs are known as consumers because they consume producers or other consumers. Dogs, birds, fish, and humans are all examples of heterotrophs. Heterotrophs occupy the second and third levels in a food chain, a sequence of organisms that provide energy and nutrients for other organisms.
Detailed explanation-2: -“Autotrophs are organisms that prepare their own food through the process of photosynthesis, whereas heterotrophs are organisms that cannot prepare their own food and depend upon autotrophs for nutrition.”
Detailed explanation-3: -consumer. noun. organism on the food chain that depends on autotrophs (producers) or other consumers for food, nutrition, and energy. decomposer. noun.
Detailed explanation-4: -Consumers are also referred to as heterotrophs in contrast to autotrophs, which are the producers of the food chain. Consumers therefore include animals and heterotrophic bacteria and fungi.
Detailed explanation-5: -Decomposers are made up of the FBI (fungi, bacteria and invertebrates-worms and insects). They are all living things that get energy by eating dead animals and plants and breaking down wastes of other animals.