producers, consumers, and decomposers the connections among life

Producers, Consumers, and Decomposers

The Connections Among Life

Producer: Organism which produces its own food by using energy from the sun

www.chappyspowerorganics.com/ mycinnoc.html www.edhelper.com/plants.htm

www.tadininc.com/ tadin%20map1.htm

www.afaith.com/photos/ tree.jpg

ckso.uhome.net/gallery/ grass.jpg

www.snfisher.com/Plants/ thumbs_d/thumbs_p.html

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Consumer: Organism which doesn’t make its own food, but gets it from eating plants or other animals

www.mnzoo.com/animals/ index.asp

www.busy-bees.com.au/

JIGSAWPUZZLES3years+.html

www.dandin.com/group.html

www.healthwell.com/.../D_Backs/

Sep_00/happymeal.cfm?path=hw

www.nhm.ac.uk/science/consulting/ cmdetail.html

www.saltlake-audubon.org/ birding/story.htm

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Decomposer: Organism which digests or breaks down formerly living material

www.tiehh.ttu.edu/mhooper/ research.htm

www.nhptv.org/natureworks/

graphics/mush11.jpg

uc.rutgers.edu/medrel/photos/ bacteria-green.jpg

www.nhptv.org/natureworks/ graphics/earth11.jpg

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Do you think you can identify examples of producers,

consumers, and decomposers?

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Which of the following are CONSUMERS?

www.scientificillustrator.com/ illustration/amphibians.html

www.tinkering.net/au_plaisir/ g1.html

www.yakscorner.com/stories/ elephant.htm

sports.espn.go.com/ golf/masters/index

pas.byu.edu/AgHrt100/ rasberry.htm

www.cinema.com/gallery/ item.phtml?ID=5692&page=2

www.reptifarm.com/foto/ boa%20cons..jpg

www.kwic.com/~pagodavista/ lorraine.html

www.growf.org/photos/ sf-2001-polar-bear-1.jpg

www.feic.com/esem/gal6.htm

Which of the following are DECOMPOSERS?

www.cals.ncsu.edu:8050/course/ ent425/text01/impact1.html

www.tiehh.ttu.edu/mhooper/

research.htm

www.goshen.edu/bio/Woods/ ecosystem.html

63.136.85.207/contact.htm

www.usatoday.com/.../aaas/ 2002-04-05-coop-behavior.htm

www.unep.ch/roe/par.htm

graphics.stanford.edu/courses/ cs448c-00-fall/

www.fish.com/~brad/sydney00/ sydney-botanical-flowers.jpg

Which of the following are PRODUCERS?

www.jardinflowers.com/ service.cfm

www.sandringhamestate.co.uk/ visitor/countrypark.html

www.photo.net/photo/pcd2488/ maple-trees-12

www.chinch-bugs.ca/ description.html www.northcoastjournal.com/ 090502/garden0905.html

www.att.com/hr/life/eoaa/

www.le.ac.uk/li/sources/ subject3/animal/

Sorry! A consumer is an organism that doesn’t

make it’s own food, it gets it from eating other plants

and animals. Try again!

Sorry! A producer makes its own food with help

from the sun!

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Sorry! A decomposer digests or breaks down

formerly living organisms.

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CORRECT! That is a consumer because it eats other plants and animals

for food.

CORRECT! That is a producer because it makes its own food.

CORRECT! That is a decomposer because it digests or breaks down

formerly living organisms.

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Herbivore:an animal that gets its food from eating only

plants

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Omnivore:an animal that eats other animals or plants

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whats-an-omnivore.html

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an-omnivore.html

www.qrg.northwestern.edu/projects/marssim/simhtml/info/

whats-an-omnivore.html

www.state.tx.us/NASApp/amerpromise/ AmerPromiseMgr

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Carnivore:an animal that gets its food from killing and eating other animals

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www.qrg.northwestern.edu/projects/marssim/simhtml/info/whats-a-carnivore.html

www.qrg.northwestern.edu/projects/marssim/simhtml/info/whats-a-carnivore.html

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Which one is a HERBIVORE?

www.savoie-maurienne.com/sites/

equitation/modedevie.htm

www.ifrance.com/pandageant/ alimentation.htm host20.ipowerweb.com/.../ rhynoclemys_pulcherima.jpg

www.bham-bot-gdns.demon.co.uk/ other.html

www.rick.summerhill.org/labs

Which one is a OMNIVORE?

www.donaghe.com/images/ h-bunny1carrot.jpg

www.qrg.northwestern.edu/projects/marssim/simhtml/info/whats-an-

omnivore.html

www.cathouse-fcc.org/images/

www.qrg.northwestern.edu/projects/marssim/simhtml/info/whats-a-herbivore.html

www.lilly.com/careers/

Which one is a CARNIVORE?

www.qrg.northwestern.edu/projects/marssim/simhtml/info/whats-a-carnivore.html

www.qrg.northwestern.edu/projects/marssim/simhtml/info/whats-a-carnivore.html

www.qrg.northwestern.edu/projects/marssim/simhtml/info/

whats-an-omnivore.html

www.qrg.northwestern.edu/projects/marssim/simhtml/info/whats-a-herbivore.html

www.ci.glendale.az.us/ Employment

Sorry! A herbivore is an animal that only eats plants.

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Sorry! An omnivore is an animal that eats plants and animals.

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Sorry! A carnivore only eats meat.

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Correct! That is a herbivore because it eats only plants.

Correct! That is an omnivore because it eats both plants and

animals.

Correct! That is a carnivore because it eats only meat.

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