ENERGY IN ECOSYSTEMS

PRODUCERS

• Uses sunlight to make own food.
• Provides food for herbivors.
• Plants are producers.

PHOTOSITHISIS

CONSUMERS

• An organism that usually is an animal that feeds on plants or other animals.
• They get energy directly from the sun
• They can't produce there own food.

HERBIVORES

• An herbivore is a consumer that gets its energy from eating plants.
• It gets energy from the plant to live and grow.
• A herbivore is a consumer.

CARNIVORES

• Consumers that eat other animals are carnivores.
• It gets its energy from eating other animals.
• Some animals don't kill to get food.

OMNIVORES

• Consumers that eat both plants and animals are calles omnivores.
• Many animals are omnivores.
• A black bear is an omnivore.

DECOMPOSERS

• Living things that break down animal skin, tree trunks, and dead plants.
• They get the last bite of energy from plants and animals.
• Mushrooms help to break down the log they are growing on.

FOOD CHAIN

• A process by which energy passes from one living thing to another.
• Sun, grass,mouse,mountain lion.

FOOD WEB

• All kinds of food chains put together.