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Neither. Sunlight provides producers with the energy they need. It could techniqually be called a producer.
In ecology a producer is a photosynthetic green plant or chemosynthetic bacterium, constituting the first trophic level in a food chain; an autotrophic organism.
So the sun is not a producer in ecological terms.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 9y agoSunlight is important to animals that eat other animals because energy is passed from the sun to plants and then to the animals that feed on plants. Then, it is passed from the animals that feed on plants to the animals that consume other animals. It's all part of an important cycle in the food chain.
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∙ 13y agobecause if the producers don't get sunlight they wont grow thus the consumers will have nothing to eat
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∙ 12y agoThe sun is a producer of sunlight.
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Why is sunlight an important factor in an ecosystems?
because the plants neth sunlith some animals eat plantas and other animals
Why are sunlight and temperature important?
it is important toPLANTS to make there food and for ANIMALS to eat the plants and without the temp. and sunlight the animals cant eat the plants because the plants will be dead without sunlight and the right temp.
What does a planketon eat?
Plankton is a mix of plants and animals, the plants "eat" sunlight, the animals eat the plants and each other.
How can the energy used by many living things on Earth can be traced back to sunlight?
Plants need sunlight to produce sugars which they use for their nutrition. Then herbivore animals eat the plant to get energy and after that the carnivore animals eat the herbivore animals for the same reason. The energy of sunlight has traveled through plants, herbivores and carnivores, for example to humans who eat other animals.
Why is the amount of sunlight important to the animals in an ecosystem?
The amount of sunlight is important to the organisms in an ecosystem because it affects the amount of producers. This affects them because they eat the producers.
Why are animals important to the tundra biome?
i think it is to eat other animals
How is sun energy the basis for many of the ocean's food chain?
Plants use energy from the sun to produce their food( gulcose) in a process called photosynthesis . When animals eat these plants , then other animals eat animals that eat those plants , there you have a life cycle that has the sun as a base source of energy.
What animal Needs the sun to be active?
All animals need sunlight to be active, weather directly or not. For example animals who eat plants need sunlight to make the plants that they eat to get energy. For meat eaters its a bit more complicated. They eat the animals who eat plants who use the sun. so indirectly all animals need sunlight.
Why are animals important to the ecosisitem?
Animals are important to the ecosystem because some animals eat other animals that if there were too many of them they would destroy the environment.
Are all animals directly or indirectly independent for there food?
Animals are all dependant on other organisms for food - either plants or other animals. This is because they are heterotrophs; they cannot produce their own nutrients.Plants on the other hand, are autotrophs. They take in sunlight and convert it directly into sugars or "plant food".
Can anmals create the energy they need to live?
No. Neither can plants, for that matter. Animals get the energy they need from plants, or from other animals, which they eat. Plants get their energy from the sunlight.
Why are people important?
We aren't the world survived, even thrived without us. We are important to each other- our family, our pets, etc.- but we are not overall important. We are not as important as a worm is to a few baby birds or how important other animal's waste is to that worm and meat is to those animals and plants are to other animals and sunlight is to those plants. The world cantsurvive without those things, but it can survive without us.
