1. You Try
Do People eat fish and other food just because it tastes good? Explain.
What happens to the remains of acherfish that decay in the water?

2. What Are Producers and Consumers?

3. Most living things get their energy to live from the sunlight.
Food from the Sun
Most living things get their energy to live from the sunlight.

4. Photosynthesis
Water and carbon dioxide are combined in the presence of sunlight to form sugars and oxygen.
This is how green plants and algae get energy.

5. The sun provides energy.
The berries on this plant provide
Food for other organisms.
The bush’s roots absorb nutrients from the soil

6. Producers and Consumers
Any living thing that can make it’s own food is called a producer.
An animal that eats plants or other animals is called a consumer.

7. When animals eat plants, the energy stored in the plants moves into the animals’ bodies. The animals can then use this energy for their own growth and health.

8. You Try
What is a producer?
What is a consumer?
Give two examples of each.

9. Kinds of Consumers
There are three types of consumers:
Herbivores
Carnivores
Omnivores

10. A herbivore is an animal that eats only plants, or producers.

11. A carnivore is an animal that eats only another animal.

12. An omnivore is an animal that eats both plants and animals.

13. What eats what activity.