1. Create this chart in your notebooks
Create this chart in your notebooks. What do you already know or want to know about producers, consumers, and decomposers.
Know
Want to Know
Learned

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

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

4. What have you eaten today? Why do we eat?
We eat to get energy.

5. The three categories of the food chain are…..
Consumers
Producers
Decomposers
They are all depend on each other.

6. Consumers Consumers need to eat their food to get energy.
They eat other organisms. (ANIMALS)

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

8. Carnivores only eat meat (other animals)

10. Herbivores eat only plants.

12. Omnivores eat both meat (animals) and plants.

14. Just watch…

15. Stop…Review…Check… Turn to your partner and tell them the meaning of each word. Also give two examples of each.
Carnivore:
Herbivore:
Omnivore:

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

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

20. Just watch:

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

22. The Energy Connection, continued
Section 2 Living Things Need Energy
The Energy Connection, continued

23. The Energy Connection, continued
Section 2 Living Things Need Energy
The Energy Connection, continued

24. How they relate .

25. Stop…Review…Check… Turn to your partner and tell them the meaning of each word. Also give two example of each.
Producers:
Consumers:
Decomposers:

26. Final Review

27. Bear Shark Rabbit Cherry tree Mushroom Human Tulip (flower) 8. Panther
On a sheet of note book paper describe the following animals as either a producer, consumer or decomposer. For the consumers, make sure to include if they are a carnivore, herbivore or omnivore. Please use complete sentences! (Ex: A _____ is a ______.)
Bear
Shark
Rabbit
Cherry tree
Mushroom
Human
Tulip (flower)
8. Panther
9. Giraffe
10. Worm