ECOLOGY
ENERGY FLOW AND THE FOOD CHAIN
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Consumer:eats producers and other consumers
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Decomposer:hunts other animals for food
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Predator:makes food from sunlight
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Producer:breaks down wastes and dead materials
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Detailed explanation-1: -Animals that eat both producers and consumers are called a. autotrophs.
Detailed explanation-2: -An animal that eats producers, like plants or algae, is called an herbivore. Carnivores eat other consumers. This means they eat other animals. Animals that eat both producers and consumers are called omnivores.
Detailed explanation-3: -Plants make their own food through a process called photosynthesis. Using the energy from the sun, water and carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and nutrients, they chemically make their own food. Since they make or produce their own food they are called producers.
Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -Living things that have to hunt, gather and eat their food are called consumers. Consumers have to eat to gain energy or they will die. There are four types of consumers: omnivores, carnivores, herbivores and decomposers.