Question

Differentiate between the producers and consumers.

Answer 1

Producers are those which produce their own food through photosynthesis by using inorganic materials while consumers are those which eat the food produced by the producers directly or indirectly. Example: grass is the producer and the cow is the consumer .

Producers are organisms that make their own food through photosynthesis or other reactions and are a food source for other organisms (for example: plants, extremophile benthos communities).

Consumers are organisms that ingest other organisms, like plants, in order to gain energy (for example: herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, detrivores).

So, if there is a rabbit eating a carrot, the carrot is the producer and the rabbit is the consumer.