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Consumers, Producers, Dec Om Posers

This document summarizes the roles and relationships between organisms in a food chain. It explains that producers, like plants, use sunlight to produce their own food, while consumers include herbivores that eat plants, carnivores that eat other animals, and omnivores that eat both. Decomposers break down dead organisms. Food chains show how energy passes between organisms with one organism serving as a food source for another. Multiple interconnected food chains form a food web.

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Consumers, Producers, Dec Om Posers

This document summarizes the roles and relationships between organisms in a food chain. It explains that producers, like plants, use sunlight to produce their own food, while consumers include herbivores that eat plants, carnivores that eat other animals, and omnivores that eat both. Decomposers break down dead organisms. Food chains show how energy passes between organisms with one organism serving as a food source for another. Multiple interconnected food chains form a food web.

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The Inside Story: Producers and

Consumers, Decomposers,
Herbivores, Carnivores, &
Omnivores
Lesson Goal
Summarize the organization of simple food
chains (including the roles of producers,
consumers, and decomposers).
Let’s Watch!
Important Facts

• All organisms need energy to live and grow.


This energy is obtained from food.
• The role an organism serves in an
ecosystem can be described by the way in
which it gets its energy.
Producers

Plants are called producers because they are


able to use light energy from the Sun to
produce food (sugar) from carbon dioxide
in the air and water.
Consumers
• Animals cannot make their own food so
they must eat plants and/or other
animals.
• They are called consumers.
• There are three main groups of
consumers.
– Animals that eat only plants are called
herbivores.
– Animals that eat only animals are called
carnivores.
– Animals that eat both animals and plants are
called omnivores.
Let’s Watch!
Let’s Watch!
You Should Know
• One way to show how energy is passed through an
ecosystem is through a food chain.
• A food chain is a series of plants and animals in which each
organism is a source of food (energy) for the next in the
series.
• In a typical food chain, plants use the Sun’s energy to
make their own food and then are eaten by one kind of
animal which in turn is eaten by another kind of animal.
• Most organisms are part of more than one food chain and
eat more than one kind of food in order to meet their
energy requirements.
• Interconnected food chains form a food web.
Let’s Watch!
Food Webs
Let’s Watch!
Food Webs
Let’s Watch!
You Should Know
• Organisms can also be identified based on how they
interact with other organisms.
• Predators are animals that hunt and kill other animals for
food.
• Prey are animals that are hunted and killed as food for
other animals.
• A parasite is an organism that spends a significant portion
of its life in or on a living host organism usually causing
harm to the host without immediately killing it.
• Hosts are organisms or cells that serve as a home or a
source of food for a parasite.
Window Pane Reflection
What is the most interesting thing you have Draw a picture of something you learned and
learned? include a caption.

List 2 important facts you have learned. What are you still wondering?

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