ECOLOGY
ORGANISMS AND THE ENVIRONMENT
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They obtain energy from other organisms.
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They break down dead plant and animal material.
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They use sunlight to make food.
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They are parasites of plants.
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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: -Primary producers use energy from the sun to produce their own food in the form of glucose, and then primary producers are eaten by primary consumers who are in turn eaten by secondary consumers, and so on, so that energy flows from one trophic level, or level of the food chain, to the next.
Detailed explanation-3: -> Each consumer depends on the trophic level below it for energy.
Detailed explanation-4: -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. Herbivores are living things that only eat plants to get the food and energy they need.
Detailed explanation-5: -A consumer in a food chain is a living creature that eats organisms from a different population. A consumer is a heterotroph and a producer is an autotroph. Like sea angels, they take in organic moles by consuming other organisms, so they are commonly called consumers.