what are producers and consumers
Then the first level consumers come and eat the plants. They then absorb 10% of the energy before being eaten by the second level consumers who then only absorb 10% of that energy. So by the time that the second level consumer has eaten, he has only recieved 1% of the energy from the producer. Producers. - Producers are organisms that capture sunlight energy and store it as food. They then use the sun's energy to turn water and CO2 into food molecules by using photosynthisis.
Consumers or heterotrophs are organisms that obtain organic molecules by eating or digesting other organisms. These are the herbivores and carnivores of the ecosystem. By eating other organisms they gain both food as an energy supply and nutrient molecules from within the biomass ingested.