Consumers
🐸 A consumer gets its energy by consuming (eating) other organisms. The frog is a consumer because it eats other organisms.
Why is this frog classified as a consumer?
🍄 Decomposers break down dead organisms and return nutrients to the soil.
Mushrooms are decomposers.
What role do decomposers have in an ecosystem?
☀️ The sun transfers energy to the plant. The plant transfers energy to the caterpillar and the bird. The caterpillar and bird transfer energy to the hawk.
What is the flow of energy from the Sun to the hawk?
This food chain only shows one path of energy transfer. Food webs have many overlapping food chains.
What is the difference between the food chain and a food web?
🌵 The cactus is a producer.
What is the prickly pear cactus?
A consumer has to eat other organisms to get the energy it needs to survive.
What is a consumer?
The source of energy in all food webs is the Sun.
What is the source of energy for this food web?
🌱 >> 🐛 >> 🐟 >> 🐋
They get energy from producers.
How many herbivores are in this food chain?
Producers transfer energy to herbivores.
What role does this organism play in the survival of herbivores?
There are 6 consumers in the food web.
How many consumers are shown in this simple food web?