1. What Types of Roles Do Organisms Play?

2. Relationships in Ecosystems
A community works like a team. Each member of the team has its own job to do. There are three different types of team members. Producers make food. Consumers use the food that producers make or eat other organisms. Decomposers break down wastes and the remains of other organisms.

3. producer
An organism, such as a plant, that makes food.
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4. consumer
Any organism that eats the food producers make or eats other consumers.
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5. decomposer
An organism that breaks down wastes and the remains of other organisms.
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