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Q: What are organisms that must eat food for energy called?
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What do you call organisms that must obtain energy from food?

They are called consumers.


Organisms that capture light energy from the sun and transform it into food are called?

An autotroph is an organism that is able to produce its own food. In contrast, a heterotroph must consume other organisms for energy.


Why organisms must have food?

Because food is a source of energy and it also supplies cells with oxygen


What must eat other organisms for food?

An organism that eats other organisms for energy are known as heterotrophs.


An organism that can not make its own food?

An organism that cannot make its own food is called a consumer. Organisms that make their own food are called producers. Consumers must create energy from eating producers or other consumers.


Organisms that must eat food for energy are .?

You are describing a consumer. They do not make their own food like plants do.


Animals that cannot make their own food and must eat other animals or plants to get energy are called what food relationships show where organisms get their food each member on the chain feed?

consumers


What is an organism that must eat others?

An organism that eats other organisms is called a consumer.


Organisms that must obtain nutrients and energy by eating other organisms are?

All animals are heterotrophs, getting their organic molecules (food, growth) from another organism. Those that consume other organisms are predators. The larger predatory animals that consume smaller animals are carnivores (meat eaters).


What are the organisms that must get their energy from food sources?

heterotrophs


What organism uses sunlight or eats food to make energy?

Organisms that use sunlight are photosynthetic (like plants, algae, etc.) and organisms that must eat food are consumers (us, etc.).


Are animals ever at the beginning of a food chain?

No. A food chain must begin with a producer, which uses photo- or chemosynthesis to produce energy. Animals must consume other organisms to obtain energy and so cannot be producers.