Which statement about the relationship between consumers and producers is true?
A) Consumers obtain energy by eating other organisms; producers obtain energy by decomposing dead matter.
B) Consumers obtain energy from an external source to produce their own food; producers obtain energy by decomposing dead matter.
C) Consumers obtain energy by eating other organisms; producers use energy from an external source to produce their own food.
D) Consumers and producers both obtain energy by eating other organisms; the difference lies in what types of organisms they eat.

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Consumers obtain energy by eating other organisms, while producers, such as plants, use energy from an external source like sunlight to produce their own food through photosynthesis.

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