Consumers, Producers, and Decomposers BY: Ryan Lawrence and Grace Kelly

Producers Producers are organisms that capture the energy of sunlight and store it as food energy. They then use the energy to turn water and carbon dioxide into food by using photosynthesis. Water Lilies are one example of producers

Consumers Consumers are organisms that obtain energy by eating other organisms. This process is called predatation, it’s when one organism hunts and kills another organism. There are first-level consumers, second-level consumers, and sometimes third-level consumers. One example of a consumer is a hawk, which eats mice, which eats plants.

Decomposers Decomposers are organisms who break down wastes and dead organisms and return the raw stuff to the enviroment. Without decomposers we would not have the raw materials of life available to us. One example of decomposers are mushrooms.