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The vast majority of organisms that are designated as producers (generally plants) derive their energy from the sun through photosynthesis. Some exceptions to this are called extremophiles, which gain energy through chemosynthesis (such as bacteria around deep ocean vents).

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What animal is a primary prouducer?

Primary producers in an ecosystem are typically plants, algae, and some types of bacteria. These organisms are essential for converting sunlight into energy through photosynthesis, which is the starting point of the food chain.


Is a chiken a consumer or decompusers or producer?

A chicken is a consumer, as it primarily feeds on plants, seeds, and insects, obtaining energy by eating other organisms. In an ecological context, consumers are organisms that cannot produce their own food and rely on producers (like plants) for energy. They play a vital role in food chains and ecosystems by transferring energy from producers to higher trophic levels.


What are producers in biology?

Producers in biology are organisms that can create their own food through processes like photosynthesis or chemosynthesis. They are typically plants, algae, or certain types of bacteria that serve as the foundation of the food chain, providing energy for other organisms.


Do producers photosynthesize?

Yes, within the food chain, plants are classified as the produces because they are the living organisms that produce their own food and energy. This is through photosynthesis. Animals are classified as consumers because regardless of whether they are herbivores or carnivores, they have to consume something in order to get energy.


What is rhe definitoin of primary consumer?

A primary consumer is a heterotrophic organism that attains its energy by consuming producers (plants). A primary, or first order, consumer, will always b a herbivore, sicne a consumer by definition must consume other organisms.

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What organisms are the producers in the energy flow of an ecosystem?

Producers in an ecosystem are usually plants, algae, and some types of bacteria. They are able to convert sunlight into energy through the process of photosynthesis, which forms the basis of the food chain by providing energy to other organisms.


Organisms that eat producers or other organisms for energy?

Organisms that eat other organisms for energy are hetreotrophs.


What are organisms that eat producers of other organisms for energy?

consumers


What are organisms that get energy by other organism?

producers .


Why must all food webs contain producers?

The food web start of with producers because the victim or prey is usually a herbivore and/or omivor there for the must start of by eating the nutrients of the plants thus the producers at the beginning


Organisms that eat producers or other organisms for energy is called what?

Consumer


What are organisms that are able to convert the sun's energy into usable energy?

Producers


What do you call organisms that get it energy straight from the sun?

producers


In food chains these organisms eat the producers?

Those organisms are primary consumers, also known as herbivores. They feed directly on producers, which are usually plants or algae, as their source of energy. Examples include rabbits, deer, and caterpillars.


What trophic levels is at the base of each energy pyramid?

Usually Producers are at the bottom of the energy pyramid such as Grass, Fungi, dead leaves, ect.


What are organisms in an ecosystem that first capture energy?

Autotrophs or producers


What kind of organisms obtains energy only from producers?

Herbivores