Respuesta :
Oxygen and carbon are needed for plants and animals to survive. Plants absorb carbon and process it to make energy. Animals eat plants and obtain the nitrogen compounds they need to make certain body chemicals.
Carbon is acquired by consumers in order to maintain their life processes when they break down the plants and animals they eat.
How do consumers get carbon?
Plants are able to gain carbon through their processes which is then passed to herbivorous animals which eat them.
Consumers then eat both plants and the animals that ate the plants, and acquire carbon from them by breaking down the animals and plants.
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