Life Science – 4 th Grade Producers, Consumers, Decomposers and Food Chains

Producers Plants Plants Use sunlight to make food Use sunlight to make food Get their energy from the sun Get their energy from the sun

Consumers Animals that consume or eat Animals that consume or eat They eat other animals and/ or They eat other animals and/ or They eat producers They eat producers

1 st Level Consumer - Herbivores Herbivores Herbivores Eat only producers Eat only producers grasshoppermousebison butterfly

2 nd Level Consumers - Carnivores Only eat other animals – consumers Only eat other animals – consumers They eat 1 st Level consumers They eat 1 st Level consumers snakemouse spider

3 rd Level Consumers They eat 2 nd Level consumers They eat 2 nd Level consumers hawk bear

Omnivores Some animals eat both producers and consumers Some animals eat both producers and consumers raccoongrizzly bearpig And don’t forget HUMANS!

Food Chain Producer 1 st Level Consumer 2 nd Level Consumer 3 rd Level Consumer grassgrasshopper snakehawk energy flows to

Food Chain Sentences The grass gets its energy from the The grass gets its energy from the sun sun The grasshopper gets its energy from the The grasshopper gets its energy from the grass grass The snake gets its energy from the The snake gets its energy from the grasshopper grasshopper The hawk gets its energy from the The hawk gets its energy from the snake snake

Decomposers They are consumers They are consumers They break down the tissues of dead organisms They break down the tissues of dead organisms They connect both ends of the food chain They connect both ends of the food chain bacteria mushroomsvultures maggots earthworms