Consumers (food chain)

Producers, such as plants, create their own food through photosynthesis. Consumers, such as animals, eat producers for energy. Decomposers, like fungi and bacteria, break down dead plants and animals into nutrients that producers can use, completing the cycle by returning nutrients to the soil. This interconnected relationship forms the basis of a food chain.

Producers are plants, and are found on the first trophic level.

Consumers are normally animals, and they comsume the plants or other animals that have eaten the plant before them. These consumers are found on the second trophic level and upwards, depending on how the consume the energy that originated from the plant.

Humans are consumers as they acquire and use goods and services to satisfy their needs and wants. This consumption plays a key role in the economy by driving demand for products and services, which in turn supports businesses and drives economic growth.

A food chain is a linear sequence that shows how energy and nutrients are transferred from one organism to another. A food web, on the other hand, is a network of interconnected food chains within an ecosystem, showing multiple relationships and interactions between different organisms.

Yes, a cougar is a secondary consumer. It preys on herbivores such as deer, which are primary consumers that feed on plants. Cougars occupy the second trophic level in the food chain.

Secondary consumers are called secondary consumers because they occupy the second trophic level in an ecosystem, following primary consumers that feed on producers. They obtain energy by consuming primary consumers, making them the second link in the food chain.

Duckweed is a producer, as it does not consume directly any other organism to get it's food, and creates it's own food through photosynthetic action. Another way to look at it is that duckweed is a producer as it takes atomic substances and changes them to more complex molecules which can then be used for energy storage or direct energy usage, rather than obtaining these complex 'food' molecules from the surrounding environment.

The two main producers of the Taiga are the Fisher and the Lepovion...

Actually, I thought the Fisher and the Lepovion were ANIMALS. Everyone knows producers are plants. So, taiga trees are mostly evergreens, with a couple of deciduous (trees that lose their leaves in fall) trees mixed in. Evergreens are mostly firs, pines, spruces, etc. A type of evergreen that actually loses its leaves is a tamarack. Another is a larch.

Anyways, some other examples of trees are lodgepole pines, white pines, poplar spruce, and so on.

When the producer is eaten by the consumer, it is an exchange of energy. Ironically, 90% of the energy that the producer had is lost, and the consumer only receives 10% of it. Therefore, to get enough energy to survive, the consumer must eat more producers, meaning that, to sustain the consumers, there must me many more producers.

Another name for consumer is and autotroph

A quaternary consumer is an organism that occupies the highest trophic level in a food chain and feeds on tertiary consumers. These consumers primarily feed on other carnivores and may not have any natural predators. An example of a quaternary consumer could be a top predator like a human or a shark.

Producers, like plants, convert sunlight into energy through photosynthesis. Consumers, such as herbivores and carnivores, eat the producers to obtain energy. Decomposers, like bacteria and fungi, break down the remains of dead organisms and waste products, returning nutrients to the soil for producers to use again. This cycle connects all three groups in a food chain, showing the flow of energy and nutrients through an ecosystem.

Theoretically there could be some instances of these higher level consumers but effectively it all comes down to the transfer of energy between trophic (feeding) levels. No energy transfer is 100% efficient and biological transfers are generally much less so.

Because there is less energy retained in each successive trophic level from that converted to biomass by plants from sun light each trophic level must consist of less biomass. there is less mass of antelope than of plants and less again of lions. if something ate lions there would be so few they could not support a population.

Cyanobacteria utilize the energy of sunlight to drive photosynthesis, a process where the energy of light is used to split water molecules into oxygen, protons, and electrons. While most of the high-energy electrons derived from water are utilized by the cyanobacterial cells for their own needs, a fraction of these electrons are donated to the external environment via electrogenic activity. Cyanobacterial electrogenic activity is an important microbiological conduit of solar energy into the biosphere.

Organisms that produce their own food are primary producers.

Organisms that consume either entire plants ( eg : grass) or atleast plant parts such as leaves, fruits etc. are termed as primary consumers.

Herbivores are organisms that consume only plant matter that is they depend only on primary producers directly for their food.

Thus all herbivores are primary consumers but all primary consumers in a food chain or a food web does not necessarily have to be a herbivore.

A quaternary consumer is an organism in a food chain that feeds on tertiary consumers, which are animals that eat secondary consumers. Quaternary consumers are typically at the top of the food chain and play a crucial role in regulating the populations of the organisms they prey on.

The 5th consumer in a food chain would typically be a tertiary consumer. This means it is an organism that consumes secondary consumers, which in turn eat primary consumers that feed on producers. Examples of tertiary consumers include top predators like lions or eagles.

1. Primary consumers are herbivores that eat plants directly.
2. Secondary consumers are carnivores that eat primary consumers.
3. Tertiary consumers are carnivores that eat secondary consumers.

Fish are consumers, because they eat other animals or plants and they do not produce their own food.

A tiger is a carnivore, meaning it primarily eats meat. Their diet consists mainly of large prey animals like deer, wild boar, and buffalo. They do not consume plant matter, making them strictly carnivorous.

hawks, tigers, lions, hyenas, bisons, African elephant (only in African grasslands), black-footed ferret, black rhinoceros, gifaffe, greater prairie chicken (i know it sounds weird, but it's true), ostrich, prairie dog, warthog, zebras, hedgehogs and pronghorn

A Highest order consumer is the top of the food chain. They are eaten by nothing and eat everything .

Consumers in the boreal forest include animals such as moose, deer, wolves, bears, squirrels, and birds. These animals feed on a variety of resources, such as plants, insects, and other animals, to meet their energy and nutrient requirements within the forest ecosystem.

In a food chain, first order consumers are animals, such as grasshoppers and rabbits, which eat grass or plants. Producers are plants that can make their own food. Second order consumers eat first order consumers. Examples of second order consumers are birds that eat insects and snakes that eat rabbits in a food chain.