Something that makes its own food
plants, trees, grass
sulight, water, and carbon dioxide
They are important because they provide food and energy to the ecosystem
photosynthesis
A consumer is an organism that cannot make its own food
herbivore, carnivore, omnivore
A herbivore is an organism that only eats plants. A carniovre is an organism that only eats meat. A omnivore is a organism that eats both animals and plants. A scavenger is a carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms.
food/energy
The producers would all die off and the consumers would not have enough food
an organism that breaks down waste and other dead organisms
It becomes soil and part of the ecosystem
mushrooms, worms, fungi, bacteria
Bacterial and fungi
The break down dead material which creates soil and provides nutirents for new things to grow
an animal that is eaten and hunted by others
All of the connected and interacting food chains in an ecosystem
The order in which animals feed on plants and other animals
The ability to do work
living and non-living things in an environment that interact with each other.
