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Because it is a food chain, it is basically the same concept as humans and animals, except with organisms. They are living things, so they need to feed!
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∙ 13y agoConsumers can only get their energy from consuming other living things.
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∙ 12y agoBecause it is a food chain, it is basically the same concept as humans and animals, except with organisms. They are living things, so they need to feed!
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∙ 6y agowhy does an organisms eat another organisms
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Organisms that eat other organisms are called?
Organisms that eat other organisms are called consumers or predators.
Are tigers consumers?
No, tigers are consumers. They eat food by consuming other organisms. A producer makes its own food, like a plant does.
What are 2 examples of consumers?
Consumers are organisms that use other organisms for energy resources, as opposed to producers, which can use sunlight to create their own energy-storing molecules, or decomposers, which get energy-rich molecules from dead organisms. Another name for a consumer is a predator. Consumers can eat plants, animals, bacteria, or just about anything else they are capable of catching. Most animals are consumers, including people. Other examples of consumers are birds, turtles, lions, frogs, and cows.
Why tiger is secondary consumer?
Cheetahs are secondary or higher consumers. A primary consumer wold be an herbivore or an omnivore - it is an organism that consumes plants, which are the producers. A secondary consumer, like a cheetah, eats an organism that has eaten a producer.
Is salmon decomposers consumers or producers?
Salmon are consumers. They are an animal that eats other animals.Consumers are organisms that feed on others below them in the food chain. Their job is to reduce the number of overpopulating organisms.
Organisms that eat other organisms are called?
Organisms that eat other organisms are called consumers or predators.
Organisms that eat other organisms are known as?
consumers
What are organisms that eat producers of other organisms for energy?
consumers
What are some consumers in the freshwater ecosystem?
consumers are organisms that eat other organisms. Depends on what level consumer it is ;).
Are organisms that eat other animals?
Animals that eat other organisms are called carnivores, or sometimes secondary consumers.
What do consumers and producers do?
Consumers eat other organisms and producers make their own food.
Is a pig a consumers?
Yes; they eat other organisms for energy.
Which organisms are the consumers and what is a consumer?
animals who eat other organism's
What is the difference between producers and consumers?
Producers (plants) make their own food, consumers don't. Consumers have to eat producers or other consumers.
What organisms in a balanced aquarium are consumers?
consumers eat other things so fish or decomposes such as snails
What are called Herbivores Carnivores And Omnivores That Eat Other Organisms d?
Consumers
What is producers and consumers?
Producers are organisms that make their own food using sunlight (photosynthesis) consumers are organisms that eat producers or other consumers and decomposers are organisms that return the dead organisms to their primary components such as oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide
