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Producers and consumers exchange energy and matter in various ways. The producers are used as food for the consumers and the consumers are used as fertilizer and food for producers when they die.
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∙ 14y ago- producers get their energy by using the solar energy so they power food.
- consumers get their energy by consuming organic molecules made by other organizums
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What do Consumers obtain energy by eating what and other consumers?
THey obtain energy by eating consumers and producers.
Did producers or consumers come first?
Producers. The producers make the food, then consumers eat it, then secondary consumers eat them, and so on and so fourth.
What is the common characteristics do all producers have?
"All consumers can make its own food in order to survive" 100% wrong! Consumers don't necessarily always make it's own food to survive. All producers make their own food using photosynthesis. Consumers get their energy from producers.
Are small animal animals and protist producers?
No. All animals are consumers, not producers.However, there are certain protists like dinoflagellates, diatoms and algae that are producers and make energy from sunlight.
Are birds consumers or producers?
Chicken is a consumer. Producers are (basically) plants, whereas consumers are animals that eat plants or other animals (very simplified).
Where do producers consumers an decomposers obtain energy?
The energy in the producers comes from the sun. It feeds the consumers. The decomposers ultimately release the energy from the consumers and the producers that were not consumed.
How producers consumers and decomposers obtain energy?
producers obtain energy from water and sunlight, consumers obtain energy from producers and decomposers obtain energy from comsumers.
How do producers and consumers use their energy?
Consumers mainly obtain energy from the food that they eat. This means that their source of energy will be from the producers.
What is the role of producers consumers and decomposers in an ecosystem?
Producers capture energy and stores it in food. Consumers get their energy by eating other organisms. Decomposers decomposes the consumers, producers and waste materials to products that are again useful for producers. Thus, consumers do not actually have a role, while producers and decomposers do.
What do Consumers obtain energy by eating what and other consumers?
THey obtain energy by eating consumers and producers.
How consumers acquire energy to live?
By eating producers or other consumers.
Why does respiration take place in producers and consumers?
Cellular respiration is the process by which producers and consumers get energy from food and convert that energy into molecules of ATP, the energy molecule of the cell.
Process by which producers and consumers release stored energy from food molecules?
The process by which producers and consumers release stored energy from food molecules is respiration.
What is the difference between producers and consumers?
Producers (plants) make their own food, consumers don't. Consumers have to eat producers or other consumers.
How much energy is lost from producers to producers consumers?
you tell me im not sure
How is energy transferred through a food chain?
10% or the energy of THE SUN is transferred. 1 tertiary consumers 10 secondary consumers 100 primary consumers 1000 producers 10000 sun
Why do consumer depend on producers for food?
Without producers the consumers would have nothing to eat and wouldn't have any energy. Producers get energy directly from the sun. Consumers can't make their own food or energy without eating something else.
