1. Interdependence of Living Things=

2. Producers
Organisms that have the ability to produce their own energy (autotrophs).
Most producers use the sun’s energy to make food (photosynthesis).
Plants make up the largest group of producers.

3. Consumers Organisms that cannot make their own food.
They must obtain energy from other living things (heterotrophs).
All animals are consumers.

4. Decomposers
Organisms that obtain a majority of their energy from wastes and dead organisms.
Natures recyclers.
Considered consumers.
Examples: bacteria, fungi, worms, maggots)

5. Herbivores
Organisms that only eat plants.
Rabbits, cows, horses.

6. Carnivores
Organisms that only eat meat.
Lions, Owls, Hawks

7. Omnivore Organisms that feed on both plants and animals.
Bears, raccoons, robins

8. Detritivores
Organisms that feed on tiny bits of decaying matter called detritus
Millipedes,beetles

9. Food Chains
Simple model showing how matter and energy pass from one organism to another
Always starts with producers (plants) who get their energy from the sun
2nd step in chain are primary consumers that eat producers (herbivores)
3rd step in chain are secondary consumers that either eat primary consumers or producers.
4th step in chain are tertiary consumers or top predators that feed primarily on primary and secondary consumers.

10. What does a food chain look like?

12. Where does the energy come from?
The sun provides most life on earth energy
Plants use the process called photosynthesis to make food
Light energy chemical energy (food)

13. Energy loss
When a herbivore eats, only 10% of energy from plants becomes body mass
Remaining 90% is lost to carry out life processes (movement, digestion, reproduction) & as waste
When carnivore eats herbivore only 1% of original amount of energy is used

16. Abiotic & biotic factors
Abiotic factors are non-living things in the environment ex. soil, water, rocks, sunlight.
Biotic factors are living things in the environment ex. animals, plants, bacteria.