1. Consumers
Acquire energy from others by eating
AKA:Heterotrophs

2. Six Types of Consumer Carnivore Herbivore Omnivore
Consumes other animals
Consumes plants
Omnivore
Consumes both plants and animals

3. Six Types of Consumer Decomposer Scavenger Detritivore
Breaks down
Organic material
Detritivore – feeds on dead plants
Consumes dead and
decaying organic matter

4. Link to Video on Decomposers

5. Energy Relationships

6. Environment producers consumers  decomposers.
Food Chains
One-way energy flow
Environment producers consumers  decomposers.

7. E N R G Y Trophic Levels Producers- Autotrophs Secondary consumers
Tertiary consumers- top carnivores
Secondary consumers
Primary consumers - Hetertrophs
Producers- Autotrophs 7

8. Food Chains
Series of steps in which organisms transfer energy from eating or being eaten
Arrows point towards consumer

10. Food Web
Network of complex interactions formed by feeding relationships among the various organisms in an ecosystem

11. Amoeba Sisters Video Link