Question

Explain the biotic factors in an ecosystem.

Answer 1

Producers:

• The living things that can prepare their own food are called producers.
• Green plants are the producers. They make their own food by the process of photosynthesis. Hence, they are called ‘primary producers’.

Consumers:

• The living things that eat the food prepared by. the producers are called consumers.
• Most of the living things depend directly or indirectly on producers for their food.
• Consumers can be divided into three types based on their food as herbivores (plant-eating animal), ‘carnivores (flesh-eating animal), omnivores (both plant and flesh-eating animal).

Decomposers:

• Organisms that feed on the wastes, dead plants, and animals are called decomposers.
• They return the nutrients to the soil.
  E.g., Bacteria, Fungi.