Makers
An organism that makes its own energy.
What is a producer?
An organism that eats living organisms for energy.
What is a consumer?
Organisms that eat dead organisms and break them down into the soil.
What are decomposers?
Grass
Producer
The processes that producers make energy through.
What is photosynthesis?
An organism that eats only plants.
What is a herbivore?
Without decomposers what would happen to the earth?
The earth would pile up with dead plants and animals.
Bunny
Consumer (primary)
The byproducts of photosynthesis. (What does photosynthesis produce?)
Glucose (sugar) + Oxygen
An organism that eats only meat
What is a carnivore?
An example of a scavenger.
What is a turkey vulture, racoon, ant, hyena, etc.
Owl
Consumer (secondary)
Producers make this to "eat" in order to get their energy
Glucose or Sugar
An organism that eats both plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?
Bacteria, earthworms and fungi are this type of consumer.
What is a decomposer?
Earthworm
Decomposer
What elements are needed for photosynthesis to occur? (there are 3)
Sunlight + Carbon Dioxide + Water
A human is this kind of consumer.
What is an omnivore?
Name 3 examples of decomposers
Earthworms, Beetles, Fungi, Mold, etc.
Beetle
Decomposer