A producer
The horseshoe crab is a consumer, because they use food to get energy.
Only if they eat other zooplankton (other consumers). Most likely though, they are eating phytoplankton (producers), which makes them primary consumers.
Sun or hydrothermal vent produces for the producer (not an animal but still a producer) NOTE: This example is in the ocean Primary Producer: phytoplankton 1st order consumer / Primary Consumer: zoo plankton 2nd order consumer / Secondary Consumer: fish 3rd order consumer / Tertiary Consumer: Seal / Sealion/ Penguin 4th order consumer / Quaternary Consumer: Killer whale / Shark / Polar bear
its a producer.
consumer
It is not a consumer, it is a primry producer
Plankton may be both producer (phytoplankton) and consumer (zoo plankton) but is not a decomposer (that is the job for bacteria). Phytoplankton is the producer, which is eaten by zooplankton, which is then eaten by other organisms in the ocean.
Plankton may be both producer (phytoplankton) and consumer (zoo plankton) but is not a decomposer (that is the job for bacteria). Phytoplankton is the producer, which is eaten by zooplankton, which is then eaten by other organisms in the ocean.
Consumer. Barnacles consume phytoplankton by waving their cirri in the water column. They are not photosynthic.
Consumer. Barnacles consume phytoplankton by waving their cirri in the water column. They are not photosynthic.
Plankton may be both producer (phytoplankton) and consumer (zoo plankton) but is not a decomposer (that is the job for bacteria). Phytoplankton is the producer, which is eaten by zooplankton, which is then eaten by other organisms in the ocean.
Phytoplankton are producers and not scavengers as claimed.
It is not a consumer, it is a primry producer
Zooplankton is a consumer because it eats (consumes) other things, e.g: Phytoplankton.
Zooplankton is a consumer because it eats (consumes) other things, e.g: Phytoplankton.
Phytoplankton get eaten by Zooplankton and Zooplankton get eaten by Herring but Phyotplankton make their own energy form sunlight so it's a Producer.
An example of a unicellular producer is a phytoplankton, which uses photosynthesis to produce food. A multicellular consumer example can be a lion, which hunts and feeds on other organisms for energy.