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Because they do not make their own food and have to eat food made from other organisms.
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The organisms that are classified as primary consumers are the?
Herbivores
How are organisms identified?
animals are identified by consumers, producers, and decomposers, and plants are angiosperms, and other types of "sperms" and are also classified as vascular and nonvascular.
What are humans trophic level?
Actually,trophic level is feeding position of animals in food chain or food web in ecosystem. [ANIMALS WHICH CONSUME ENERGY CALLED AS CONSUMERS]They are classified as primary consumers [plant eaters are called herbivores] secondary consumers [flesh eaters are called carnivores] tertiary consumers [Eaters of both plants and flesh are called omnivores] RABBIT IS PRIMARY.SPIDER IS SECONDARY AND HUMANS ARE TERTIARY CONSUMERS
How does knowing that plant cells have chloroplasts and that animals cells do not help you compare the way plants and animals get food?
Chloroplasts indicate an organism with the ability to preform photosynthesis and is classified as an autotroph; producer. Animals can not produce their own food and are classified as heterotrophs; consumers.
What consumer only eats dead organisms?
They are Omnivores.
How are consumers classifield names?
The consumers are usually classified according to the type of food that they eat. They are also classified according to their species and genus.
The organisms that are classified as primary consumers are the?
Herbivores
Are elephants consumers?
Elephants are classified as primary consumers. These is because they feed directly on the plants which are the producers in the tropic.
What are animals that eat only primary producers classified as?
Animals that eat producers are called primary consumers or herbivores.
Why can some consumers be classified as both first and second level consumers?
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What animal eats animals that have eaten plants would be classified as a?
Tertiary consumers.
Are people consumers?
people are consumers and producers AND decomposers
How are consumer's classified?
They eat another thing the first consumers, example bunnies eat plants, secondary consumers eat other animals example, fox.
Are mites consumers?
Yes, they're both primary (they basically consume any plant) and/or secondary (they can consume flesh as well) consumers. They're also classified as detritivores.
Are people produsers or consumers?
People are both producers and consumers. Some people produce products for other citizens to consume. In a biology sense, we are consumers.
Is red cod a producer?
No. Fish are consumers, not producers. Virtually all producers (autotrophs) are classified as plants.
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
