1. HOW DO ORGANISMS GET THEIR ENERGY?

2. the main source of energy for almost all living things
The SUN is
the main source of energy for almost all living things

3. Producer
Producer – (autotrophs) an organism that uses the sun’s energy to make its food through photosynthesis
Begins the food chain or food web
Examples: Plants and Algae
How do they trap the sun’s energy? Through what process? What is that process similar to in animal cells?

4. Consumer – (heterotrophs) ingest food containing the sun’s
Consumers
Consumer – (heterotrophs) ingest food containing the sun’s
energy (eat producers)
Herbivores
Carnivores
Omnivores
Decomposers
Energy moves up the food chain through the producer/consumer relationship.

5. Herbivores Types of Consumers eat plants
Examples: grasshoppers, bison, antelope, cows
Herbivores are the 1st step up the food chain, they eat the producers

6. Carnivores Types of Consumers eat meat Predators Scavengers Hunt prey
animals for food
- Examples: coyotes, hawks, owls, lions
Scavengers
Feed on dead animals
Examples: vultures, snails, worms, crabs
Scavengers are a type of carnivore that eat dead animals, or carrion. Vultures, hyenas, crabs, deep sea fish-talk about distance from the sun and must eat the dead things that sink to the bottom, bottom feeders

7. Omnivores - eat both plants and animals
Types of Consumers
Omnivores - eat both plants and animals
Humans and bears are omnivores but a large and important subset of omnivores are the decomposers. They breakdown dead producers and release the energy back into circulation.

8. Types of Consumers Decomposers (Nature’s Recyclers) organism that
feeds on and
breaks down dead plant and animal matter
Bacteria is the #1 Decomposer
Humans and bears are omnivores but a large and important subset of omnivores are the decomposers. They breakdown dead producers and release the energy back into circulation.
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