Detritivors
Those organisms are called heterotrophic. These organisms either eat the autotrophs (organisms that make their own food) or eat the organisms that eat the autotrophs (also called the producers). Heterotrophs are also called "consumers."
Autotrophs that make their own food are also called producers. They use energy from sunlight or inorganic compounds to produce organic molecules through photosynthesis or chemosynthesis. Examples include plants, algae, and some bacteria.
These organisms are called autotrophs. They can be also known as producers.
Are called heterotrophs.
Organisms that manufacture organic nutrients from inorganic substances, such as carbon dioxide, are called primary producers. They are also referred to as autotrophs.
Organisms that make their own food are called autotrophs.
They are called autotrophs (or producers). Plants and algae are the primary autotrophs on the planet. This is in contrast to heterotrophs (consumers), which feed on autotrophs and cannot create their own food (internally, that is).
They are called autotrophs.
chemoheterotrophs
The process by which autotrophs trap energy from sunlight is called photosynthesis. This is possible because of the chloroplasts inside an autotrophs cells.
Autotrophs are also called producers. They produse food not only for themselves but for all other living things as well.
Autotrophs are called the producers in an ecosystem because they are the first layer of energy. This is because they produce their own food using photosynthesis.