What is the difference between heterotroph consumers and producers?

Answer 1

what are differences between producers & decomposers

Answer 2

A producer is any organism that can produce its own food. The producers we know best are plants, but there's also seaweed (algae) and huge numbers of tiny sea organisms (phytoplankton).

A consumer cannot make its own food. To live, it must consume producers (plants, etc.) or other consumers (animals) or both.

Exceptions:

There are some plants that are consumers.

Some, such as the parasite Mistletoe, consume the vital sap of other plants.

Some, such as the Venus Flytrap, consume insects, but they also produce food by photosynthesis, so they turn out to be both producers AND consumers.

Answer 3

a heterotroph cannot make its own food, a producer makes something, and a consumer eats, takes, and uses what the producer made

Answer 4

a heterotroph is a type of consumer...so its basically the same thing. a heterotroph just needs more energy than other consumers like lions because they only eat meat and nothing else

Answer 5

Decomposers break down waste, producers are usually plants that use sunlight to get energy, and consumers consume producers and other consumers.

Answer 6

a consumer is something :)