Producers, Consumers, and Decomposers

1. Producers, Consumers, and Decomposers The Connections Among Life

2. www.chappyspowerorganics.com/ mycinnoc.html www.snfisher.com/Plants/ thumbs_d/thumbs_p.html www.edhelper.com/plants.htm Producer: Organism which produces its own food by using energy from the sun. www.tadininc.com/ tadin%20map1.htm www.afaith.com/photos/ tree.jpg ckso.uhome.net/gallery/ grass.jpg

3. www.dandin.com/group.html www.saltlake-audubon.org/ birding/story.htm Consumer: Organism which doesn’t make its own food, but gets it from eating plants or other animals. www.healthwell.com/.../D_Backs/ Sep_00/happymeal.cfm?path=hw www.nhm.ac.uk/science/consulting/ cmdetail.html www.mnzoo.com/animals/ index.asp www.busy-bees.com.au/ JIGSAWPUZZLES3years+.html

4. www.tiehh.ttu.edu/mhooper/ research.htm uc.rutgers.edu/medrel/photos/ bacteria-green.jpg Decomposer: Organism which digests or breaks down formerly living material. www.nhptv.org/natureworks/ graphics/mush11.jpg www.nhptv.org/natureworks/ graphics/earth11.jpg

5. Do you think you can identify examples of producers, consumers, and decomposers? Click over there to try a few!

6. www.kwic.com/~pagodavista/ lorraine.html www.scientificillustrator.com/ illustration/amphibians.html pas.byu.edu/AgHrt100/ rasberry.htm sports.espn.go.com/ golf/masters/index www.reptifarm.com/foto/ boa%20cons..jpg www.growf.org/photos/ sf-2001-polar-bear-1.jpg www.tinkering.net/au_plaisir/ g1.html www.cinema.com/gallery/ item.phtml?ID=5692&page=2 www.yakscorner.com/stories/ elephant.htm Which of the following are CONSUMERS? www.feic.com/esem/gal6.htm

7. Which of the following are DECOMPOSERS? graphics.stanford.edu/courses/ cs448c-00-fall/ www.cals.ncsu.edu:8050/course/ ent425/text01/impact1.html www.goshen.edu/bio/Woods/ ecosystem.html www.usatoday.com/.../aaas/ 2002-04-05-coop-behavior.htm www.tiehh.ttu.edu/mhooper/ research.htm 63.136.85.207/contact.htm www.unep.ch/roe/par.htm www.fish.com/~brad/sydney00/ sydney-botanical-flowers.jpg

8. www.sandringhamestate.co.uk/ visitor/countrypark.html www.att.com/hr/life/eoaa/ Which of the following arePRODUCERS? www.jardinflowers.com/ service.cfm www.le.ac.uk/li/sources/ subject3/animal/ www.photo.net/photo/pcd2488/ maple-trees-12 www.chinch-bugs.ca/ description.html www.northcoastjournal.com/ 090502/garden0905.html

9. 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!

10. Sorry! A producer makes its own food with help from the sun! Try again!

11. Sorry! A decomposer digests or breaks down formerly living organisms. Try again!

12. CORRECT! That is a consumer because it eats other plants and animals for food.

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

14. CORRECT! That is a decomposer because it digests or breaks down formerly living organisms.

15. This is the end of section one. Click below to proceed to section two.

16. www.qrg.northwestern.edu/projects/marssim/simhtml/info/whats-a-herbivore.htmlwww.qrg.northwestern.edu/projects/marssim/simhtml/info/whats-a-herbivore.html Herbivore:An animal that gets its food from eating only plants. www.qrg.northwestern.edu/projects/marssim/simhtml/info/whats-a-herbivore.html www.qrg.northwestern.edu/projects/marssim/simhtml/info/whats-a-herbivore.html www.qrg.northwestern.edu/projects/marssim/simhtml/info/whats-a-herbivore.html

17. www.state.tx.us/NASApp/amerpromise/ AmerPromiseMgr Omnivore:An animal that eats other animals or plants. www.qrg.northwestern.edu/projects/marssim/simhtml/info/whats-an-omnivore.html www.qrg.northwestern.edu/projects/marssim/simhtml/info/whats-an-omnivore.html

18. www.qrg.northwestern.edu/projects/marssim/simhtml/info/whats-a-carnivore.htmlwww.qrg.northwestern.edu/projects/marssim/simhtml/info/whats-a-carnivore.html Carnivore:An animal that gets its food from killing and eating other animals. 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-a-carnivore.html

19. www.ifrance.com/pandageant/ alimentation.htm host20.ipowerweb.com/.../ rhynoclemys_pulcherima.jpg Which one is a HERBIVORE? www.rick.summerhill.org/labs www.savoie-maurienne.com/sites/ equitation/modedevie.htm www.bham-bot-gdns.demon.co.uk/ other.html

20. www.qrg.northwestern.edu/projects/marssim/simhtml/info/whats-an-omnivore.htmlwww.qrg.northwestern.edu/projects/marssim/simhtml/info/whats-an-omnivore.html www.qrg.northwestern.edu/projects/marssim/simhtml/info/whats-a-herbivore.html Which one is a OMNIVORE? www.donaghe.com/images/ h-bunny1carrot.jpg www.cathouse-fcc.org/images/ www.lilly.com/careers/

21. www.qrg.northwestern.edu/projects/marssim/simhtml/info/whats-a-carnivore.htmlwww.qrg.northwestern.edu/projects/marssim/simhtml/info/whats-a-carnivore.html Which one is a CARNIVORE? www.qrg.northwestern.edu/projects/marssim/simhtml/info/whats-a-herbivore.html www.ci.glendale.az.us/ Employment www.qrg.northwestern.edu/projects/marssim/simhtml/info/whats-an-omnivore.html www.qrg.northwestern.edu/projects/marssim/simhtml/info/whats-a-carnivore.html

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

23. Sorry! An omnivoreis an animal that eats plants and animals. Try again

24. Sorry! A carnivore only eats meat. Try again

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

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

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

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