what is the relationship between producers and consumers
Lesson Summary. A pattern of energy flow through the organisms that live in any ecosystem can be observed. Producers, such as a tree, make their own food and begin this cycle. The producers are then eaten by primary consumers that cannot produce their own food, such as a giraffe. Primary consumers only eat plants. Secondary consumers are meat eaters, like lions. They eat the primary consumers. When the primary consumer dies it is eaten by decomposers.