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Producers • An autotrophic is an organism that produces its own food and serves as a source of food for other organisms in a food web. • Converts raw energy from the sun to organic molecules and nutrients useful to themselves and other organisms • Producers include green plants (grass and trees) which produce food through photosynthesis • Algae and some bacteria are also producers ©Copyright 2015 - all rights reserved www. cpalms. org

Consumers • Are heterotrophic - cannot make their own food and must obtain energy by eating other organisms. • Includes animals, bacteria, and fungus • Herbivore - eats only plants (grasshopper) • Carnivore - eats other animals (wolf) • Omnivore - eats both plants and animals (black bear) ©Copyright 2015 - all rights reserved www. cpalms. org

Decomposers • An organism, often a bacterium or fungus, that feeds on and breaks down dead plant or animal matter. • Converts dead organisms and animal/plant waste into water and nutrients. • Nutrients are returned to the soil and made available to the other organisms in the ecosystem. ©Copyright 2015 - all rights reserved www. cpalms. org

Producer, Consumer, Decomposer Game • The next several slides will be of different organisms • When each slide is displayed, hold up the card that corresponds to the appropriate role the organism plays in a food web ©Copyright 2015 - all rights reserved www. cpalms. org

FOX https: //upload. wikimedia. org/wikipedia/commons/d/d 0/Fox_(PSF). png ©Copyright 2015 - all rights reserved www. cpalms. org

MUSHROOMS https: //pixabay. com/static/uploads/photo/2013/07/13/13/50/mushroom-161634_640. png ©Copyright 2015 - all rights reserved www. cpalms. org

TIGER https: //pixabay. com/static/uploads/photo/2012/05/04/09/16/tiger-46840_640. png ©Copyright 2015 - all rights reserved www. cpalms. org

DRAGON FLY https: //upload. wikimedia. org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c 9/PSF-Dragonfly. svg/1000 px-PSFDragonfly. svg. png ©Copyright 2015 - all rights reserved www. cpalms. org

APPLE TREE https: //pixabay. com/static/uploads/photo/2012/04/13/00/42/flowering-tree-31387_640. png ©Copyright 2015 - all rights reserved www. cpalms. org

HAWK https: //upload. wikimedia. org/wikipedia/commons/8/84/Black_and_white_line_art_drawing_of_swainson_hawk_bird_in_flight. jpg ©Copyright 2015 - all rights reserved www. cpalms. org

BACTERIA https: //pixabay. com/static/uploads/photo/2013/07/12/15/18/germs-149605_640. png ©Copyright 2015 - all rights reserved www. cpalms. org

FLOWER https: //pixabay. com/static/uploads/photo/2013/07/13/13/49/flower-161624_640. png ©Copyright 2015 - all rights reserved www. cpalms. org

FISH http: //res. freestockphotos. biz/pictures/10/10804 -illustration-of-a-jumping-fish-pv. png ©Copyright 2015 - all rights reserved www. cpalms. org

TURTLE http: //www. freestockphotos. biz/stockphoto/16830 ©Copyright 2015 - all rights reserved www. cpalms. org

How does a food web differ from a food chain? https: //commons. wikimedia. org/wiki/File: Sim plified_food_chain. svg ©Copyright 2015 - all rights reserved www. cpalms. org

Label the plant or animal as a producer, consumer, or decomposer. Then draw arrows to show energy is transferred through the ecosystem. Ladybird Butterfly Titmouse bird Grasshopper Mouse Fungi ©Copyright 2015 - all rights reserved www. cpalms. org Rabbit Plantain

consumer consumer arrow consumer consumer producer Fungi decomposer producer http: //myphotobag. com/sonoran-desert-food-chain-images-of-the-ocean/foodweb 01. pagespeed. png. html ©Copyright 2015 - all rights reserved www. cpalms. org

https: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Food_chain#/media/File: Chesapeake_Waterbird_Food_Web. jpg ©Copyright 2015 - all rights reserved www. cpalms. org

http: //interactions-environment. wikispaces. com/file/view/photos. jpg/215919172/photos. jpg ©Copyright 2015 - all rights reserved www. cpalms. org

consumer Marine Food Web consumer consumer producer consumer https: //www. flickr. com/photos/121935927@N 06/13578843423 ©Copyright 2015 - all rights reserved www. cpalms. org consumer