Video Rabbit

• Why do you think we are watching this video of this rabbit?

Video Clip

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PRODUCERS, CONSUMERS, and DECOMPOSERS

FoldableObjective:

Can I identify producers, consumers, scavengers, and

decomposers in a food chain or food web?

1. Producers

Organisms that use sunlight directly to make food

• They do this by a process called PHOTOSYNTHESIS

PRODUCER EXAMPLES:

Grass, Plants,

Trees Corn

Reality Check

• Can I identify producers, consumers, scavengers, and decomposers in a food chain or food web?

• So, what is a producers?

2. Consumers

Organisms that eat producers or other

organisms for energy!

There are 4 Types of Consumers:

Herbivores

Carnivores

Omnivores

Scavenger

A. Herbivores

Consumer that eats plants

B. Carnivores

Consumer thateats animals

(meat).

C. Omnivores

• A consumer

that eats both

plants and animals.

D. Scavenger

Feeds on the bodies of

dead animals.

Reality Check

• Can I identify producers, consumers, scavengers, and decomposers in a food chain or food web?

3.DecomposersOrganisms that get energy by breaking

down the remains of dead organisms.

Known as NATURE’S RECYCLERS and adds

nutrients to the soil!

Decomposer Examples:

Bacteria and Fungi

Reality Check

• Can I identify producers, consumers, scavengers, and decomposers in a food chain or food web?

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