Energy in a ecosystem

PRODUCERS

• A producer is a plant that uses sunlight and energy to make their own food
• Producers are plants not animals plants can make their own food animals can not

Photosynthesis

CONSUMERS

• Consumers are living thing that do not produce food
• Consumers do not have the energy that producers have

HERBIVORES

• Plant eaters
• Animals

CARNIVORS

• Carnivor Is a meat eater
• They eat animals

OMNIVORES

• They eat both plants and animals
• They can eat meat if plant are dying and they can eat plants if animals are dying

DECOMPOSERS

• Decomposres are thing that break down animal skins
• They get the last bit of plants and animals

FOOD CHAIN

• A food chain is where one thing gets eaten by another animal and so on
• Sun, grass, grass hopper, lizard, hawk

FOOD WEB

• A food web is a process of animals being eaten
• Grass, mouse, snake, hawk