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Energy, Producers, and Consumers. What are primary producers? How do consumers obtain energy and nutrients?. Primary Producers. Autotrophs- capture energy from sunlight or chemicals, and turn it into a form living cells can use. Examples: They are essential in aiding the flow of energy.
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Energy, Producers, and Consumers What are primary producers? How do consumers obtain energy and nutrients?
Primary Producers • Autotrophs- capture energy from sunlight or chemicals, and turn it into a form living cells can use. • Examples: • They are essential in aiding the flow of energy.
Primary Producers • Photosynthesis- captures light energy and powers converts it. • Plants are main photosynthetic producer on earth. • Algae in freshwater ecosystems converts energy from sunlight. • Cyanobacteria in tidal flats and salt marshes.
Photosynthesis • Convert CO2 into water into O2 and carbohydrates using energy from sunlight. • Without it the air wouldn’t contain enough oxygen to support humans
Primary Producers • Ecosystems also thrive in dark volcanic vents, and deep dark depths of the ocean. • Dark ecosystems rely on primary producers that use chemical energy from inorganic molecules like hydrogen sulfide.
Chemosynthesis • Process used to produce carbohydrates • They don’t always live in dark places they have been found in tidal marshes as well. Anywhere they can find chemical energy to convert into energy for other organisms.
Consumers • Can’t get energy from the environment like primary producers can. • Known as heterotrophs (consumers) they get energy from other organisms. • Examples:
Types of consumers • Carnivores- • Herbivores- • Scavengers- • Decomposers-
Types of consumers • Omnivores- • Detrivores- • Decomposers-
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