Producers, Consumers, and Decomposers

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Producers, Consumers, and Decomposers

• The Connections Among Life

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www.chappyspowerorganics.com/ mycinnoc.html
www.snfisher.com/Plants/ thumbs_d/thumbs_p.html
www.edhelper.com/plants.htm
Producer Organism which produces its own food
by using energy from the sun.
www.tadininc.com/ tadin20map1.htm
www.afaith.com/photos/ tree.jpg
ckso.uhome.net/gallery/ grass.jpg
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www.dandin.com/group.html
www.saltlake-audubon.org/ birding/story.htm
Consumer Organism which doesnt make its own
food, but gets it from eating plants or other
animals.
www.healthwell.com/.../D_Backs/
Sep_00/happymeal.cfm?pathhw
www.nhm.ac.uk/science/consulting/ cmdetail.html
www.mnzoo.com/animals/ index.asp
www.busy-bees.com.au/ JIGSAWPUZZLES3years.html
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www.tiehh.ttu.edu/mhooper/ research.htm
uc.rutgers.edu/medrel/photos/ bacteria-green.jpg
Decomposer Organism which digests or breaks
down formerly living material.
www.nhptv.org/natureworks/ graphics/mush11.jpg
www.nhptv.org/natureworks/ graphics/earth11.jpg
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Do you think you can identify examples of
producers, consumers, and decomposers? Click over
there to try a few!
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Which of the following are CONSUMERS?
www.feic.com/esem/gal6.htm
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Which of the following are DECOMPOSERS?
graphics.stanford.edu/courses/ cs448c-00-fall/

www.cals.ncsu.edu8050/course/ ent425/text01/impac
t1.html
www.goshen.edu/bio/Woods/ ecosystem.html

www.usatoday.com/.../aaas/ 2002-04-05-coop-behavio
r.htm
www.tiehh.ttu.edu/mhooper/ research.htm
63.136.85.207/contact.htm
www.unep.ch/roe/par.htm
www.fish.com/brad/sydney00/ sydney-botanical-flow
ers.jpg
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Which of the following are PRODUCERS?
www.sandringhamestate.co.uk/ visitor/countrypark.h
tml
www.att.com/hr/life/eoaa/
www.jardinflowers.com/ service.cfm
www.le.ac.uk/li/sources/ subject3/animal/
www.photo.net/photo/pcd2488/ maple-trees-12
www.chinch-bugs.ca/ description.html
www.northcoastjournal.com/ 090502/garden0905.html
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Sorry! A consumer is an organism that doesnt
make its own food, it gets it from eating other
plants and animals.

• Try again!

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Sorry! A producer makes its own food with help
from the sun!

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Sorry! A decomposer digests or breaks down
formerly living organisms.

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CORRECT! That is a consumer because it eats
other plants and animals for food.
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CORRECT! That is a producer because it makes its
own food.
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CORRECT! That is a decomposer because it digests
or breaks down formerly living organisms.
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This is the end of section one. Click below to
proceed to section two.
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HerbivoreAn animal that gets its food from
eating only plants.
www.qrg.northwestern.edu/projects/marssim/simhtml/
info/whats-a-herbivore.html
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info/whats-a-herbivore.html
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info/whats-a-herbivore.html
www.qrg.northwestern.edu/projects/marssim/simhtml/
info/whats-a-herbivore.html
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OmnivoreAn animal that eats other animals or
plants.
www.state.tx.us/NASApp/amerpromise/
AmerPromiseMgr
www.qrg.northwestern.edu/projects/marssim/simhtml/
info/whats-an-omnivore.html
www.qrg.northwestern.edu/projects/marssim/simhtml/
info/whats-an-omnivore.html
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CarnivoreAn animal that gets its food from
killing and eating other animals.
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info/whats-a-carnivore.html
www.qrg.northwestern.edu/projects/marssim/simhtml/
info/whats-a-carnivore.html
www.qrg.northwestern.edu/projects/marssim/simhtml/
info/whats-a-carnivore.html
www.qrg.northwestern.edu/projects/marssim/simhtml/
info/whats-a-carnivore.html
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Which one is a HERBIVORE?
www.ifrance.com/pandageant/ alimentation.htm
host20.ipowerweb.com/.../ rhynoclemys_pulcherima.j
pg
www.rick.summerhill.org/labs
www.savoie-maurienne.com/sites/
equitation/modedevie.htm
www.bham-bot-gdns.demon.co.uk/ other.html
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Which one is a OMNIVORE?
www.qrg.northwestern.edu/projects/marssim/simhtml/
info/whats-an-omnivore.html
www.qrg.northwestern.edu/projects/marssim/simhtml/
info/whats-a-herbivore.html
www.donaghe.com/images/ h-bunny1carrot.jpg
www.cathouse-fcc.org/images/
www.lilly.com/careers/
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Which one is a CARNIVORE?
www.qrg.northwestern.edu/projects/marssim/simhtml/
info/whats-a-carnivore.html
www.qrg.northwestern.edu/projects/marssim/simhtml/
info/whats-a-herbivore.html
www.ci.glendale.az.us/ Employment
www.qrg.northwestern.edu/projects/marssim/simhtml/
info/whats-an-omnivore.html
www.qrg.northwestern.edu/projects/marssim/simhtml/
info/whats-a-carnivore.html
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Sorry! A herbivore is an animal that only eats
plants.
Try again
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Sorry! An omnivore is an animal that eats plants
and animals.
Try again
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Sorry! A carnivore only eats meat.
Try again
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Correct! That is a herbivore because it eats
only plants.
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Correct! That is an omnivore because it eats
both plants and animals.
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Correct! That is a carnivore because it eats
only meat.
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