Consumers Acquire energy from others by eating AKA:Heterotrophs

Six Types of Consumer Carnivore Herbivore Omnivore Consumes other animals Consumes plants Omnivore Consumes both plants and animals

Six Types of Consumer Decomposer Scavenger Detritivore Breaks down Organic material Detritivore – feeds on dead plants Consumes dead and decaying organic matter

Link to Video on Decomposers http://www.teachersdomain.org/resource/tdc02.sci.life.oate.decompose/

Energy Relationships

Environment producers consumers  decomposers. Food Chains One-way energy flow Environment producers consumers  decomposers.

E N R G Y Trophic Levels Producers- Autotrophs Secondary consumers Tertiary consumers- top carnivores Secondary consumers Primary consumers - Hetertrophs Producers- Autotrophs 7

Food Chains Series of steps in which organisms transfer energy from eating or being eaten Arrows point towards consumer

Food Web Network of complex interactions formed by feeding relationships among the various organisms in an ecosystem

Amoeba Sisters Video Link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oVavgmveyY