Food Web!

Food Web!

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Producers

Organisms, usually plants, that make their own food using sunlight through photosynthesis. What are some examples of other producers you may see every day?

Consumers

Consumers are organisms that get energy by eating other organisms. These are further divided into:Herbivores: Eat plants. Carnivores: Eat meat. Omnivores: Eat both plants and meat.

How is a consumer different than a producer?

Decomposers

Decomposers: Organisms like fungi and bacteria that break down dead plants and animals, returning nutrients to the ecosystem. What happens to plants and animals after they die? Watch the video!

All About Energy

In a food web, energy moves in one direction, shown by arrows pointing from the organism being eaten to the organism that eats it.