Question

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1. Compare and contrast producers and consumers in an ecosystem.



2. Decomposers tend to go about their business without being noticed or rewarded for the work they do. Explain the importance of decomposers in ecosystems. Include in your answer the role that mold plays in a forest.


3. What form is energy in when it enters a food chain and when it leaves a food chain?

Answer 1

1) Producers can make their own food by capturing the sun's energy, but consumers and decomposers can't. Consumers need to eat other organisms to obtain energy. Producers allow energy enter in the food chain. They are generally green plants.
2) Decomposers and scavengers break down dead plants and animals. They also break down the waste of other organisms. Decomposers are very important for any ecosystem. If they weren't in the ecosystem, the plants would not get essential nutrients, and dead matter and waste would pile up.
3) Energy enters in a food chain in the form of solar energy (sunlight) and leaves in the form of heat.

(p.s.I too read it randomly on some sites....)