Producers, Consumers, Decomposers Its all about what you eat!

An organism is ….. Any independent living thing Can be as small as a single celled bacteria Or as large as a whale!

The three categories of the food chain are….. 1) Producers 2) Consumers 3) Decomposers They are all dependent on each other.

Producers Are- Producers get their food and energy from the sun. (PLANTS) They make their food through a process called photosynthesis.

Consumers Consumers need to eat their food to get energy. (ANIMALS)

Types of consumers are There are THREE types of Consumers  Carnivores  Herbivores  Omnivores. Its still all about what you eat!

Carnivores only eat meat (other animals)

Herbivores eat only plants.

Omnivores eat both meat (animals) and plants.

Decomposers Decomposers eat dead things and turn them back into dirt, or soil. YUK! Examples:  Mushrooms  Worms  Bugs

What would the world look like without decomposers (bacteria and fungi?

How they relate.