Consumers, Producers, and Decomposers

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Consumers, Producers, and Decomposers

• BY Ryan Lawrence and Grace Kelly

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Producers

• Producers are organisms that capture the energy
  of sunlight and store it as food energy. They
  then use the energy to turn water and carbon
  dioxide into food by using photosynthesis.

Water Lilies are one example of producers
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Consumers

• Consumers are organisms that obtain energy by
  eating other organisms. This process is called
  predatation, its when one organism hunts and
  kills another organism. There are first-level
  consumers, second-level consumers, and sometimes
  third-level consumers.

One example of a consumer is a hawk, which eats
mice, which eats plants.
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Decomposers

• Decomposers are organisms who break down wastes
  and dead organisms and return the raw stuff to
  the enviroment. Without decomposers we would not
  have the raw materials of life available to us.

One example of decomposers are mushrooms.