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What type of consumer always follows a producer in a food chain?
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The primary consumer
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What does the consumer mean in science?
A consumer means any living thing that has to eat another living tHing because It can't produce it's own food. Example, here is a food chain: Lettuce(producer)-is food for- slug(consumer)- is food for- sparrow(consumer)- is food for- eagle(consumer)
What does the word consumer mean in science?
A consumer means any living thing that has to eat another living tHing because It can't produce it's own food. Example, here is a food chain: Lettuce(producer)-is food for- slug(consumer)- is food for- sparrow(consumer)- is food for- eagle(consumer)
What is the trophic level of a jaguar?
The trophic level a chicken is at is the secondary consumer level. Since they are omnivores, they eat other animals and plants but also get eaten themselves by other predators.
What is high level consumer?
Humans are the highest level consumer, but just in general it's typically a carnivore or predator that is very high in the food chain, like a lion, polar bear, or a shark.
What is the role of unicellular algae in the environment?
They form a spectacular symbiotic relationships with other organisms.
What kind of consumer follows a producer in a food chain?
The kind of consumer that follows a producer in a food chain is called a primary consumer. This consumer eats the producer.
What does the food chain always end with?
A food chain always ends with a consumer.It always starts with a producer.You need the producer to make the food. You can't have a food chain without food.You need the consumer to make it a chain. If nobody eats the producer, then it isn't a food chain, it's just a lucky plant.
Is there always a consumer that comes next in the food chain?
No, a food chain has to start with a producer.
What is always a producer in the food chain?
A plant is always a producer in the food chain
What is something that is not a consumer in a food chain?
producer
What is after the producer in the food chain?
Primary Consumer
Which word best describes the function of the cabbage in the food chain fertiliser consumer organism or producer?
consumer
How do producers differ from consumers?
A producer is always at the beginning of a food chain. A producer will always be a plant. A primary consumer eats the producer. The secondary consumer eats the primary consumer. The scavenger comes next (if it gets there before the decomposer.) The decomposer will always be last. Example: (where there is a scavenger) grass --> rabbit --> fox --> vulture --> mushroom producer, primary consumer, secondary consumer, scavenger, decomposer
What is a producer and a consumer in a food chain?
The producer is the plant that creates energy using photosynthesis. The consumor is anything after that in the food chain.
What is the Leaf-cutter Ants place in the food chain?
In a food chain, the Leaf-cutter ant is the primary consumer or secondary consumer. It will eat the primary producer in the chain then is killed by the secondary consumer. On the other hand, the ant eats the primary consumer that feeds from the primary producer.
Are skunks producers?
No a skunk is not a producer it is a consumer it is a omnivore and it the middle of the food chain.
What one comes right after the producer on the food chain?
the consumer
