Consumers
A consumer is
Any organism that has to seek out and eat other living things for food.
Producers are...
Green plants that nourish themselves. They can make their own food
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
What do decomposers do for plants?
Supply nutrients
Bakers yeast
Helpful. Feeds on sugars to make bread rise.
Consumes mainly animal food
Carnivore
What do plants need to make food?
Water and carbon dioxide
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
Name decomposers
Millipede, earthworm, mushrooms
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.
Consumes mainly plant food, sunlight
Herbivore
Where does water and carbon dioxide come from?
Water comes from the air and carbon dioxide comes from the soil.
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)
What do scavengers do?
Make food for decomposers
Candida albicans
Harmful. A yeast found in your body that can reproduce rapidly and cause thrush.
Consumes a combination of animal and plant food
Omnivore
Where do plant get their energy to create food?
The sun
Composer who doesn't kill for their own food but feed off of things that were killed are called
Scavengers
Name scavengers
Turkey vulture, wolverine
Nitrogen fixing nodules
Helpful. Round swellings on the roots of plants filled with bacteria. The bacteria makes nitrogen available for plants.
Photosynthesis produces 2 things.
Food in the form of starches and sugars
Oxygen which is release back into the air
Consumers that break down dead plants and animals and waste materials
Decomposers