ECOLOGY
ECOSYSTEM
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Making it themselves.
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Breaking down biotic wastes and dead organisms and returning raw materials to the ecosystem.
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Soaking it up from the ground.
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Feeding on other organisms.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Consumers constitute the upper trophic levels. Unlike producers, they cannot make their own food. To get energy, they eat plants or other animals, while some eat both.
Detailed explanation-2: -A heterotroph is an organism that consumes other organisms in a food chain. 5-8. Biology, Ecology.
Detailed explanation-3: -Heterotrophs, also known as other-feeders, can’t capture light or chemical energy to make their own food out of carbon dioxide. Humans are heterotrophs. Instead, heterotrophs get organic molecules by eating other organisms or their byproducts. Animals, fungi, and many bacteria are heterotrophs.
Detailed explanation-4: -The primary consumers are herbivores (vegetarians). The organisms that eat the primary consumers are meat eaters (carnivores) and are called the secondary consumers.
Detailed explanation-5: -Consumers have to feed on producers or other consumers to survive. Deer are herbivores, which means that they only eat plants (Producers). Bears are another example of consumers. Black bears are omnivores and scavengers, like skunks and raccoons, which means that they will eat just about anything.