ENERGY IN A ECOSYSTEM

PRODUCERS

• When plants make there own food with the sun
• The process is called photosynthesis
• Only plants can make there own food with the sun

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CONSUMERS

• Eating other organisms
• People are consumers
• Animals are consumers to

HERBIVORES

• A consumer that gets its energy from eating plants
• they only eats plants
• They are consumers

CARNIVORES

• Gets its energy from eating other animals
• They sometime eat the remains of other animals that have already died or been killec
• They hunt for there food

OMNIVORES

• Consumers that eat both meat and plants
• Bears are omnivores
• They get there energy from plants and meat

DECOMPOSERS

• Living things that break down decaying miterals
• Mold is a decomposer
• They can break down animal skins and tree trunks

FOOD CHAIN

• When energy passes from one living thing to another

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