Lesson 2 Producers, Consumers, and Decomposers

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Producers, Consumers, Decomposers Food Chains/
Food Webs
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Producers

• Organisms that use energy from the sun to produce
  their own food (photosynthesis)
• Examples Plants, algae and some bacteria

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Consumers

• Organisms that get energy by eating other
  organisms
• 3 types of Consumers

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Herbivores

• Eats only plants
• Herb is Latin for plants
• Common Forest Herbivores deer and rabbits
• Common African Herbivores Zebra and elephants

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Carnivore

• Eats other animals
• Carn is Latin for flesh or meat
• Marine Ecosystems sharks, walruses, and seals
• Land Ecosystems lions, wolves, hawks, and eagles

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Omnivores

• Eat both plants and animals
• Omni is Latin for all or everything
• Examples pigs, bears, raccoons, and humans

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Decomposers

• Get energy by breaking down nutrients in dead
  organisms
• Examples Termites and earthworms

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• http//www.sheppardsoftware.com/content/animals/ki
  dscorner/games/producersconsumersgame.htm
• http//www.switcheroozoo.com/games/pleasedofeedthe
  animals.htm
• http//www.sheppardsoftware.com/content/animals/ki
  dscorner/games/animaldietgame.htm

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Food Chain

• Shows the path of energy as it flows from one
  organism to the next

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Food Web

• A diagram of several connected food chains

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FOOD WEB(everything is connected!)
FOOD CHAIN(just one path of energy)
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• http//www.sheppardsoftware.com/content/animals/ki
  dscorner/games/foodchaingame.htm
• http//www.ecokids.ca/pub/eco_info/topics/frogs/ch
  ain_reaction/play_chainreaction.cfm
• http//www.harcourtschool.com/activity/food/food_m
  enu.html
• http//www.zephyrus.co.uk/foodpuzzlechain.html
• http//www.gamequarium.org/cgi-bin/search/linfo.cg
  i?id8451