ENERGY IN ECOSYSTEMS

PRODUCERS

• Uses sunlight to make its own food
• Provides food for herbivores
• Plants are producers

CONSUMERS

• They get energy directly from the sun.
• They cant produce their own food.
• An organism that usually is an animal that feeds on plants or other animals.

Photosynthesis

HERBIVORES

• A herbivore is a consumer that gets its energy from eating plants.
• A insect gets its energy from plants so a insect is a herbivores.
• A giraffe is a herbivore because the giraffe eats only plants.

CARNIVORES

• A shark is a carnivore.
• A carnivore is a animal that only eats meat.
• Some carnivores, such as vultures don't kill their food they look for dead animals.

OMNIVORES

• A omnivore eats both plants and animals.
• A raccoon and a black bear are both omnivores.
• A zebra is an omnivore.

DECOMPOSERS

• A decomposer is a living thing that breaks down decaying materials.
• Fungi, bacteria,and mold are all types of decomposers.
• When a living or non-living thing is decomposed it is released into the soil.

FOOD CHAIN

• A food chain is a process by which energy passes from 1 living thing to another.
• The sun gives energy to the plant,the plant gives energy to the deer,the deer gives energy to the wolf and it starts all over again.

Food Web
A food web is a process that combines many food chains to show how energy moves through an ecosystem.