Producer Consumer Relationships
What does this picture have to do with energy?
What makes a producer-consumer relationship recognizable?
What can producers do that consumers cannot? How do they do this?
What else can we call the consumers involved in a producer-consumer relationship? What does each name mean?
Explain how you can recognize a producer-consumer relationship in both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.
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Producer-consumer relationships can be recognized because they contain…
Consumers are often types of…
In terrestrial ecosystems, producers are usually…
In aquatic ecosystems, producers are typically…