Producers, Consumers & Decomposers
Plants are given this name because they make, or "produce," their own energy from the sun.
What are producers?
What gas do plants put INTO the air when they use the sun to make energy?
What is oxygen?
This is the term for non-living parts of an ecosystem, like rocks, water, and sunlight.
What is abiotic?
Animals are given this name because they "consume" other organisms for energy.
What are consumers?
What gas do plants take OUT of the air when they use sun to make energy?
What is carbon dioxide?
This is the term for living parts of an ecosystem, like plants, animals, and decomposers.
What is biotic?
This group recycles nutrients from dead plants and animals and return them to the soil.
What are decomposers?
Besides sunlight, these three things are what plants need from the soil and air to survive and grow.
What are nutrients, water, and carbon dioxide?
In a food web diagram, arrows are drawn pointing in this direction — toward the organism doing THIS action.
What is consuming (eating)?