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Describe the three basic levels in an ecosystem. Provide an example of each.

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Producers: There are the organisms that can make their own food in the ecosystem such as green plants and chemo synthetic bacteria.

Consumers: These are the organisms that feed on these producers to obtain energy such as the herbivores.

Decomposers: These are the organisms that break down living things to organis matter when they die.

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Producers: The green plants that make high energy molecule such as glucose (food) by the help of the sunlight is known as the producers.

Example: Plants and blue-green algae.

Consumers: The small animals that feed on the plants for their energy requirement is known as consumers.

Example: Rabbit, Goat, Cow

Decomposers: The bacteria, fungi and other microorganism that feed on the dead and decaying animals and obtain energy from this organic matter is known as decomposers.

Example: Winter fungus.

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