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a consumer feeds off other animals and carnivores.
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What type of consumer eat dead organisms?
Consumers that only eat dead organisms may be decomposers, which include bacteria and fungi and break down dead matter into smaller nutrients. Another category of organisms that consume dead animals are scavengers, which feed on the leftovers of other predators and include vultures and heinas. Decomposers will eat both dead plants and animals, whereas scavengers usually eat dead animals.
What are the four types of consumers in an ecosystem?
Four type of consumer in ecosystem.Herbivores are animals that feed only on plants.Carnivores are animals that feed on other animals.Omnivores are animals that feed on both plants and animals.Saprobes are organisms that get nutrients by breaking down the remains of dead plants and animals. Examples of saprobes are bacteria and fungi.
What type of organisms breaks down the remains of dead animals and plants?
decomposes break down the remains of dead plants and animals.
What is the animal that eats dead organisms?
Consumers that only eat dead organisms may be decomposers, which include bacteria and fungi and break down dead matter into smaller nutrients. Another category of organisms that consume dead animals are scavengers, which feed on the leftovers of other predators and include vultures and heinas. Decomposers will eat both dead plants and animals, whereas scavengers usually eat dead animals.
What animals feed on dead animals they find?
Vulture, Hyena, a type of wild cat, Coyotes ext..Animals which eat dead animals are generally referred to as carrion eaters or scavengers.
What type of organisms breaks down the remains of dead plants and animals?
decomposes break down the remains of dead plants and animals.
what is saprophyte?
The official definition for the word saprophyte is "a plant, fungus, or microorganism that lives on dead or decaying organic matter."
What is a type of organism that feeds on other organisms?
Killer Whales feed on dolphins. Both are multicellular organisms. i think he means a more general description such as: carnivore, herbivore, consumer A parasite.
Which type of organisms get energy by breaking down the remain of dead organisms?
Decomposers.
What is the difference between saprophytic and parasitic bacteria?
Saprophytic is another way to say decomposers. Parasitic bacteria parasitize other organisms while they feed off of their insides. Saprophytic (decomposers) bacteria feed off of dead organisms and this is extremely important for the cycle of soil nutrients and also for many plant roots.
What type of Heterotroph that eats animals?
A heterotroph cannot produce its own food and must therefore consume other organisms to live. All animals and fungi are heterotrophs.
What type of organisms has to eat for energy?
all animals
