Title: Producers, Consumers, and Decomposers
1Producers, Consumers, and Decomposers
- The Connections Among Life
2www.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/ tadin20map1.htm
www.afaith.com/photos/ tree.jpg
ckso.uhome.net/gallery/ grass.jpg
3www.dandin.com/group.html
www.saltlake-audubon.org/ birding/story.htm
Consumer Organism which doesnt make its own
food, but gets it from eating plants or other
animals.
www.healthwell.com/.../D_Backs/
Sep_00/happymeal.cfm?pathhw
www.nhm.ac.uk/science/consulting/ cmdetail.html
www.mnzoo.com/animals/ index.asp
www.busy-bees.com.au/ JIGSAWPUZZLES3years.html
4www.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
5Do you think you can identify examples of
producers, consumers, and decomposers? Click over
there to try a few!
6Which of the following are CONSUMERS?
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7Which of the following are DECOMPOSERS?
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www.cals.ncsu.edu8050/course/ ent425/text01/impac
t1.html
www.goshen.edu/bio/Woods/ ecosystem.html
www.usatoday.com/.../aaas/ 2002-04-05-coop-behavio
r.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-flow
ers.jpg
8Which of the following are PRODUCERS?
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tml
www.att.com/hr/life/eoaa/
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
9Sorry! A consumer is an organism that doesnt
make its own food, it gets it from eating other
plants and animals.
10Sorry! A producer makes its own food with help
from the sun!
11Sorry! A decomposer digests or breaks down
formerly living organisms.
12CORRECT! That is a consumer because it eats
other plants and animals for food.
13CORRECT! That is a producer because it makes its
own food.
14CORRECT! That is a decomposer because it digests
or breaks down formerly living organisms.
15This is the end of section one. Click below to
proceed to section two.
16HerbivoreAn animal that gets its food from
eating only plants.
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17OmnivoreAn animal that eats other animals or
plants.
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AmerPromiseMgr
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info/whats-an-omnivore.html
18CarnivoreAn animal that gets its food from
killing and eating other animals.
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19Which one is a HERBIVORE?
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www.rick.summerhill.org/labs
www.savoie-maurienne.com/sites/
equitation/modedevie.htm
www.bham-bot-gdns.demon.co.uk/ other.html
20Which one is a OMNIVORE?
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info/whats-an-omnivore.html
www.qrg.northwestern.edu/projects/marssim/simhtml/
info/whats-a-herbivore.html
www.donaghe.com/images/ h-bunny1carrot.jpg
www.cathouse-fcc.org/images/
www.lilly.com/careers/
21Which one is a CARNIVORE?
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info/whats-a-carnivore.html
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
22Sorry! A herbivore is an animal that only eats
plants.
Try again
23Sorry! An omnivore is an animal that eats plants
and animals.
Try again
24Sorry! A carnivore only eats meat.
Try again
25Correct! That is a herbivore because it eats
only plants.
26Correct! That is an omnivore because it eats
both plants and animals.
27Correct! That is a carnivore because it eats
only meat.
28Congratulations!!! You have just finished the
activity.