Question

Diferentiate between :

producers and consumers

Answer 1

1. Producers: also called autotrophs make their own food with the help of inorganic substances.
2. Consumers depend directly or indirectly on the producer for food.

PRODUCERS	CONSUMERS
Producers make their own food using substances that are available in their environment.	Living things that depend on plants for food or gather food by hunting are consumers.
Since producers make their own food, they are called autotrophs. (Autos means ‘self’, and trophos means ‘feeder’ in Greek.)	Consumers cannot make their own food. They depend directly or indirectly on producers for nutrition. They are called heterotrophs. (Heteros means ‘other’.)
Producers link the biotic and abiotic factors in an ecosystem. They convert substances found in the environment, which cannot be used directly, into forms that can be used by other organisms.	It includes primary consumers i.e herbivores(cow), secondary consumers i.e carnivores(lion), tertiary consumers i.e omnivores(owl) and scavengers(vulture)