What is the science defintion of a consumer?

Answer 1

A consumer is an organism (human, animals, bugs etc...) that can't make their own food. They need to eat other matter. For example, humans eat food like meat, or dairy or even fruits and vegetables. Hope this helped.

Answer 2

Consumers are animals or plants that cannot make their own food. They must eat or consume plants and animals for food. (Another term is heterotroph.)

Answer 3

An animal that can't produce its own food and it eats plants and other animals. That is what a consumer is.

Answer 4

A consumer in Ecology is a living organism that lives in a community that must eat to get the energy it needs.

Answer 5

Consumers are animals that can not make their own food. They must eat or consume plants and other animals for food.

Ex. Slime mold

Answer 6

consumer is something living that eats either plants, animals, or people

Example:bears, people, sharks, snakes, etc.

Not plants those are producers!

Answer 7

A person who buys a product.