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Producers (food chain)
This category covers questions about producers, organisms that obtain energy by making complex organic compounds by utilizing inorganic molecules from light energy (photosynthesis) or inorganic chemical reactions (chemosynthesis). Producers are formally known as autotrophs.
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Yes, zooxanthellae are producers. They are symbiotic dinoflagellates that live within the tissues of coral and other marine organisms, where they perform photosynthesis to convert sunlight into energy. This process not only provides nutrients for themselves but also contributes to the energy needs of their host organisms, playing a crucial role in the health of coral reefs.
Is a sea spider a consumer or producer?
Producers are almost always green and plants, grasses and algae are examples. Sea spiders don't fit that description so they must be consumers of some sort. If you remember that definition of producers, you will always get the two sorted out correctly.
What are three resources producers use?
The three resources used in agriculture are money, soil and man power.
Can humans be a consumer and a producer?
yes,because farmers produce plants and hunters consume and hunt other animals
nope. Rattle snakes are not producers. They are consumers in the food chain as they eat other living organisms. Plants are the major producers on earth. Be skeptical of almost anything else being classified as a producer.
Do you have to be living on your own before you can get emancipated?
If you were to live on your own in an apartment or house, you would need to be at least 18 years of age before you can sign a lease or even a loan. If you were to live with relatives or other guardians, then it would be ok if parents give permission.
Is a jackal a producer or a consumer?
Yes, a Jackal is a Secondary Consumer because it eats first consumers such as goats, rabbits, young gazelles,rodents, rabbits, birds, eggs,reptiles, fish, insects,and fruit. And occasionally they eat road kill. They are omnivores.
The European minks main diet is fish, American minks take a wider range of prey.
Minks mostly eat small mammals like as meadow voles and shrews. They swim and dive underwater to catch fish and crayfish. They will also eat birds, eggs, frogs, clams, freshwater mussels, snakes, rats, ground squirrels, salamanders, and a variety of insects. Larger males will attack and eat small rabbits. Young muskrats are vulnerable to attack from minks during the fall when dispersing from their nests. They can catch trout with ease, and have been known to catch a trout up to 1 foot in length. Occasionally, they will attack and eat ducks. They are also known to raid poultry houses. Minks have been known the be attracted to traps with carcasses of other animals suggesting they also feed on carrion.
Minks feed on rodents, mice, rabbits and muskrats, small birds and several aquatic animals, like frogs, fish and crayfish. It seldom eats insects or carrion.
Mink raised on farms primarily eat food not fit for human consumption, including expired cheese, eggs, fish, meat and poultry slaughterhouse by-products, dog food, and turkey livers, as well as prepared, commercial foods. A farm with 3000 mink may use as much as two tons of food per day. One Wisconsin fur farm uses 2 million pounds of expired cheese and 1 million pounds of eggs per year. In all, US mink farms use about 200,000 tons of dairy products.
Does producers are the source of all the food in an ecosystem?
Yes and no, without them there would be no life because primary consumers would die without food, and then secondary consumers and so forth. However secondary consumers don't feed directly from the producers so they are not all the food in that sense.
Are producers on the top of the food chain or bottom or both?
On a food chain, it depends which direction it is going-up or down or across-but on an energy pyramid, it is at the bottom(widest part) because it has most energy.
Is a squirrel a consumer a decomposer or a producer?
A rat is a consumer, not a producer or decomposer. Most animals are consumers.
In the following examples, who is functioning as a producer?
Amala, who is baking cupcakes that will be sold at a local bakery.
What are the functions of producers?
They are the first on the food chain, and without producers, nothing would survive because herbivores need to eat producers.
Syrian refugees eat whatever they can get their hands on. The United Nations personnel who man the refugee camps typically serve the refugees simple porridges, oatmeal, or other foodstuffs that can be cheaply and efficiently brought to the camp
