Producers are organisms that create food from inorganic matter. The best examples of producers are plants, lichens and algae, which convert water, sunlight and carbon dioxide into carbohydrates. Consumers are organisms that cannot create their food. The producers are the foundation of any ecosystem.
The producers of an ecosystem make energy available to all the other living parts of an ecosystems. Consumers like humans eat the food that producers like plants made decomposers decompose dead plants and animals when they die like bacteria is a decomposer
