1. Do Now Question Give 5 examples of biotic factors and 5 examples of abiotic factors. 10/2

2. Food Chains

3. A food chain is the path that energy and nutrients follow in an ecosystem. The energy in a food chain starts with the sun.

5. Producers are organisms that use the Sun’s energy to make their energy. Producers are at the base of every food chain.

6. EX of a Producer: Plants and Algae

7. A consumer is any animal that eats plants or other animals. Animals that eat producers directly are called herbivores.

8. EX of a herbivore: Squirrels, pandas, cows, deer.

9. Animals that eat other animals rather than producers are called carnivores.

10. EX of a carnivore: Bobcats and Hawks

11. Animals that eat both plants and other animals are called omnivores.

12. EX of a omnivore: Raccoons, mice and chickens

13. Decomposers break down dead or decaying plant and animal material.

14. EX of decomposers Fungi, bacteria and many worm species