Question

you perform an experiment in which you take 16 pots of strawberry plants and give half of them 1 gram of ammonium nitrate (nh₄no₃) per liter of water and the other half receive only water. each group is then split in half again, and exposed to either eight or 16 hours of light each day. you monitor the height of the plants for four weeks. you observe that plants grown in ammonium nitrate and 16 hours of light grow taller than no ammonium nitrate and eight hours of light.
a strawberry plant is

○ a consumer.

○ a decomposer.

○ a producer.

○ a heterotroph.

○ a consumer and heterotroph.

Explanation:

Producers (autotrophs) are organisms that can produce their own food via photosynthesis, which strawberry plants do using light, water, and nutrients. Consumers/heterotrophs rely on other organisms for food, while decomposers break down dead organic matter.

Answer:

C. a producer.