Consumers
Producers
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Helpful or harmful
100

A consumer is

Any organism that has to seek out and eat other living things for food.

100

Producers are...

Green plants that nourish themselves. They can make their own food

100

Photosynthesis is important to us because

We use stored energy (sugars and starches) when we eat plants or plant eating animals

Oxygen is in the air we breathe

100

What do decomposers do for plants?

Supply nutrients

100

Bakers yeast

Helpful. Feeds on sugars to make bread rise.

200

Consumes mainly animal food

Carnivore

200

What do plants need to make food?

Water and carbon dioxide

200

What is cellular respiration?

Chemical reaction that occurs in the cells of living things. It combines food and oxygen to produce carbon dioxide, water and energy

200

Name decomposers

Millipede, earthworm, mushrooms

200

Ecoli

Helpful. Found in the intestine. Breaks down nutrients in your food and may produce vitamins your body needs

Harmful. Sometimes found in foods and can cause toxic chemicals that make us sick.

300

Consumes mainly plant food, sunlight 

Herbivore 

300

Where does water and carbon dioxide come from?

Water comes from the air and carbon dioxide comes from the soil.

300

Symbiotic relationship between photosynthesis and cellular respiration. What does each need from the other?

Photosynthesis needs the products released from cellular respiration (carbon dioxide and water)

Cellular respiration needs the products released from photosynthesis (oxygen and sugars)

300

What do scavengers do?

Make food for decomposers

300

Candida albicans

Harmful. A yeast found in your body that can reproduce rapidly and cause thrush.

400

Consumes a combination of animal and plant food

Omnivore 

400

Where do plant get their energy to create food?

The sun

400

Composer who doesn't kill for their own food but feed off of things that were killed are called

Scavengers

400

Name scavengers

Turkey vulture, wolverine

400

Nitrogen fixing nodules

Helpful. Round swellings on the roots of plants filled with bacteria. The bacteria makes nitrogen available for plants. 

500

Photosynthesis produces 2 things.

Food in the form of starches and sugars

Oxygen which is release back into the air

500

Consumers that break down dead plants and animals and waste materials

Decomposers

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