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| style="height:20px; width:600px; text-align:center;" |In this [[Food Chain|food chain]] the [[bush]] is the [[producer]] and the gazelle and cheetah are [[Consumer|consumers]].
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| style="height:20px; width:600px; text-align:center;" |In this [[Food Chain|food chain]] the [[grass]] is the [[producer]] and the grasshopper, baboon and cheetah are all [[Consumer|consumers]].
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==Key Stage 3==
===Meaning===
A '''consumer''' is an [[organism]] that feeds off on other [[organism]]sto gain [[energy]].
===About Consumers===
: A [[consumer]] cannot make its own food so it must eat other creatures[[organism]]s.: A [[consumer]] might eat a feed on [[producer]]s, or it might eat another feed on other [[consumer]]s.: [[Consumer]]s can be labelled as primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary, depending on where they are their [[Trophic Level|trophic level]] in a [[Food Chain|food chain]].
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| style="height:20px; width:600px; text-align:center;" |In this [[Food Chain|food chain]] the [[giraffe]] is a primary [[consumer]] and the [[lion]] is a secondary [[consumer]].
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| style="height:20px; width:600px; text-align:center;" |In this [[Food Chain|food chain]] the grasshopper, pied flycatcher, skunk and vulture are all [[consumer]]s.
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==Key Stage 4==
===Meaning===
: [[Consumer]]s are [[organism]]s that feed on other [[organism]]s within a [[community]].
===About Consumers===
: [[Consumer]]s are in the second [[Trophic Level|trophic level]] or higher.
: [[Consumer]]s may also be referred to as [[heterotroph]]s.
: [[Consumer]]s may be [[Primary Consumer|primary]] [[Secondary Consumer|secondary]], [[Tertiary Consumer|tertiary]] or [[Quaternary Consumer|quaternary consumers]].
: [[Consumer]]s are usually either [[animal]]s, [[fungi]] or some [[bacteria]].
: [[Consumer]]s may feed on a [[producer]] or may feed on other [[consumer]]s lower down in the [[Food Chain|food chain]].
===References===
====Edexcel====
:[https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1782948120/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1782948120&linkCode=as2&tag=nrjc-21&linkId=dedef775c6a43dbb0a609441525adac0 ''Consumers, page 289, GCSE Biology, CGP, Edexcel '']
====OCR====
:[https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0198359810/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0198359810&linkCode=as2&tag=nrjc-21&linkId=d768d99f1a06f7c12fab40e5aef85a55 ''Consumers, pages 130-131, Gateway GCSE Biology, Oxford, OCR '']