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You are describing a consumer. They do not make their own food like plants do.

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What are organisms that must eat food for energy called?

Heterotrophic.


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What is an organism that must eat other organisms for food?

a heterotroph


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Heterotrophs or consumers.


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Most animals


Why must you eat?

Your body gets energy from the food you eat.


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Any animal that's not a producer. A producer produces its own food so it doesn't get energy from an organism. An example of an animal could be a hawk. When it eats a rat the energy from the rat goes to the hawk.