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knowing the answerAUTOTROPHS ie;plants are called producers because they can prepare their own food HETROTROPHS ie; animals are called consumers because they consume the food prepared by producers
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The producers are the beings that start the food chain, usually it is a plant.

The consumer are those who eat the producers or later beings on in the food chain.

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Some plants such as venus fly trap catch and kill prey by opening and shutting to mouths or leaves by slowly digesting the animal and letting the bones jut fly away in the wind

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A consumer is a living thing that eats other living things to survive while a producer is a living thing that makes its own food from sunlight, air, and soil.

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No, there are also decomposers such as bacteria and fungi.

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Living things are classified as producers or consumers according to?

how they obtain food i'm pretty sure because producers make their own food and consumers get their food from something else


What types of living things are consumers?

Is it producers consumers and


How are consumers and producers similar?

They both are living things.


How does the biogeochemical cycle work?

Example Producers ----- Consumers ----- Secondary consumers ----- Decomposers ------ Soil ----- Producers ----- (And so on)


What sorts of living things are consumers?

All animals are consumers. Only plants and some protists are producers.


Are black widows producers?

Producers are living things that make their own food, like plants. Black widows are consumers, which get food by eating other living things.


The energy used by all living things starts with?

The energy used by all living things start with producers.


What is the difference between producers primary consumers secondary consumers and decomposers?

producers- a living thing that gets its energy from the sun ex. plants primary consumers or herbivores. Are living things that get their energy from plants. ex. rabbits secondary consumers or omnivores. Are Living things that get their energy from either plants or other animals. Ex. A bear tertiary consumers or carnivores. Are living things that get their energy from other animals only ex. a mountain lion decomposers. Are living things that break down dead organisms. ex. Mushrooms Note not to be confused with detrivores living things that eat dead things.


What is the importance of producers in an ecosystem?

producers provides food to the living things or known as consumers for survival.


How do living things interact to live?

They provide food for each other. The biomes are composed of consumers and producers. Food is produced and then the consumers eat it to live.


How would a long-term drought affect producers and consumers?

a long-term drought would affect both producers and consumers because if the producer doesn't produce what the consumer needs to eat then the consumers will die. Producers will not die because they are not living things.


What are cave consumers?

cave consumers are things that consume what the producers make