The Short Answer is: in a balanced, eco-friendly Ecosystem there is an equal number of producers as there exist consumers.
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without producers, consumers could not survive because producers are basically plants, which herbivores eat, and then carnivores consume them, so it depends a lot on producers.
No. They are plants so they are producers.
Herbivores that eat producers are known as primary consumers. These animals primarily feed on plants, algae, or other photosynthetic organisms as their main source of nutrition. Examples of primary consumers include rabbits, deer, and grasshoppers.
When comparing producers and consumers, the only producers are the plants. They do not have to eat live things. So the ptarmigan is a consumer.
Yes, algae are producers... they are "the primary producers of the food chain Yes - algae are photosynthetic organisms this means they produce their own food using sunlight so they are producers.