How does producers and consumers differ

A example of a consumer is a human and a bumble bee. The Difference Between A Producer And A Consumer by: Bre'Shonda The difference between a producer and a consumer is that the producer makes the food, and the consumer, which is the animals, eats the food that the producers make.

Difference in producers and consumers by: Gaurav samantaray Usually producers are green plants,who are self dependent whereas consumers are the animals who are dependent on other animals or producers. Difference in producers and consumers by: Jessica Producer makes the food and the consumer consumes eats the producer and becomes a first level consumer which gets energy from the producer which gets energy from the sun. What are producer and Consumers difference?

Differences by: susan santo The producers are autotrophic that is they manufacture their own food by the process of photosythensis while consumers feed on the producers. The different bteween a producer and a consumer by: warisat A producer is the the first tropic level, eat only plant. While a consumer eats producers. Animals such as as humans that usually have diets rich in both plants and animal sources are known as omnivores.

Producers are green plants. Producers' biology allows plants to manufacture their own food through a process called photosynthesis , which is driven by energy from sunlight harnessed by the leaves.

Photosynthesis results in glucose production, some of which plants use themselves in growth and other metabolic activities but most of which serves as food for consumers or simply decays when the plant dies. Consumers are animals. Consumer biology means that they cannot make their own food and must eat other organisms for nourishment. As noted, herbivores eat only plants, carnivores eat only other animals and omnivores eat both. An example containing all of these types of consumers would be a forest that included birds that are strictly carnivores, deer that are herbivores and bears that are omnivores.

Bears are also scavengers , meaning that they eat things that are already dead usually animal flesh. Consumers occupy different levels within food webs or food chains. In simplest terms, primary consumers are one level above producers and are the herbivores. Secondary consumers are one level up and eat herbivores; tertiary consumers are one level up still and eat herbivores and secondary consumers. At the very highest level are top predators , which no animals hunt for food under ordinary conditions.

Scavengers, such as vultures, are a kind of decomposer, others being bacteria and fungi. The metabolic activities of decomposers return energy to the lowest hierarchal level because it can then be incorporated into plants.

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